积劳成疾 — Chinese idiom
积劳成疾
jī láo chéng jí
Traditional: 積勞成疾
Meaning
- to accumulate work causes sickness ; to fall ill from constant overwork
Character by character
- 积jīto store up, to amass, to accumulate
- 劳láoto labor, to toil; to do manual work
- 成chéngto accomplish; to become; to complete, to finish;
- 疾jísickness, illness, disease; to envy, to hate
Idioms sharing a character
- 厚积薄发 hòu jī bó fā
- 厝火积薪 cuò huǒ jī xīn
- 堆积如山 duī jī rú shān
- 积不相能 jī bù xiāng néng
- 积土成山 jī tǔ chéng shān
- 积少成多 jī shǎo chéng duō
- 积年累月 jī nián lěi yuè
- 积恶余殃 jī è yú yāng
- 积于忽微 jī yú hū wēi
- 积习难改 jī xí nán gǎi
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