罄竹难书 — Chinese idiom
罄竹难书
qìng zhú nán shū
Traditional: 罄竹難書
Meaning
- (lit.) too numerous to record on bamboo slips
- (fig.) (of crimes or misdeeds) innumerable; beyond counting
Character by character
- 罄qìngempty; to exhaust, to run out, to use up
- 竹zhúbamboo; flute
- 难nánhard, difficult, arduous; unable
- 书shūbook, letter, document; writing
Idioms sharing a character
- 势如破竹 shì rú pò zhú
- 破竹之势 pò zhú zhī shì
- 破竹建瓴 pò zhú jiàn líng
- 竹篮打水 zhú lán dǎ shuǐ
- 竹马之交 zhú mǎ zhī jiāo
- 丝竹管弦 sī zhú guǎn xián
- 胸有成竹 xiōng yǒu chéng zhú
- 金石丝竹 jīn shí sī zhú
- 青梅竹马 qīng méi zhú mǎ
- 一木难支 yī mù nán zhī
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