痛心疾首 — Chinese idiom
痛心疾首
tòng xīn jí shǒu
Meaning
- bitter and hateful
- to grieve and lament (over sth)
Character by character
- 痛tòngache, pain; bitterness, sorrow; deeply, thoroughly
- 心xīnheart; mind; soul
- 疾jísickness, illness, disease; to envy, to hate
- 首shǒuchief, head, leader
Idioms sharing a character
- 不痛不痒 bù tòng bù yǎng
- 创巨痛深 chuāng jù tòng shēn
- 悲痛欲绝 bēi tòng yù jué
- 深恶痛绝 shēn wù tòng jué
- 无关痛痒 wú guān tòng yǎng
- 痛定思痛 tòng dìng sī tòng
- 痛改前非 tòng gǎi qián fēi
- 迎头痛击 yíng tóu tòng jī
- 头痛欲裂 tóu tòng yù liè
- 一心一德 yī xīn yī dé
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