艰苦朴素 — Chinese idiom
艰苦朴素
jiān kǔ pǔ sù
Traditional: 艱苦樸素
Meaning
- leading a plain, hardworking life
Character by character
- 艰jiāndifficult, hard; hardship
- 苦kǔbitter; hardship, suffering
- 朴pǔplain, simple; sincere; surname
- 素sùplain; white; vegetarian; formerly; normally
Idioms sharing a character
- 步履维艰 bù lǚ wéi jiān
- 举步维艰 jǔ bù wéi jiān
- 艰深晦涩 jiān shēn huì sè
- 艰难险阻 jiān nán xiǎn zǔ
- 不胜其苦 bù shèng qí kǔ
- 倒悬之苦 dào xuán zhī kǔ
- 备尝辛苦 bèi cháng xīn kǔ
- 刻苦耐劳 kè kǔ nài láo
- 千辛万苦 qiān xīn wàn kǔ
- 叫苦不迭 jiào kǔ bu dié
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