艱苦卓絕

Chinese

		arduous; laborious; difficult arduous; laborious; difficult; hard	unsurpassed; excellent; extreme unsurpassed; excellent; extreme; of the highest degree
trad. (艱苦卓絕)		艱苦	卓絕
simp. (艰苦卓绝)		艰苦	卓绝

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiānkǔzhuójué

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢ ㄎㄨˇ ㄓㄨㄛˊ ㄐㄩㄝˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiānkǔzhuójué
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢ ㄎㄨˇ ㄓㄨㄛˊ ㄐㄩㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiankǔjhuójyué
    • Wade–Giles: chien¹-kʻu³-cho²-chüeh²
    • Yale: jyān-kǔ-jwó-jywé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiankuujwojyue
    • Palladius: цзянькучжоцзюэ (czjanʹkučžoczjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ kʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂu̯ɔ³⁵ t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/

Idiom

艱苦卓絕

1. extremely hard and bitter

   • 黨有幾十萬黨員，他們在領導人民，向著敵人作艱苦卓絕的鬥爭。 [MSC, trad.]
     党有几十万党员，他们在领导人民，向着敌人作艰苦卓绝的斗争。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1942, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《整頓黨的作風》 (Rectify the Party's Style of Work), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Dǎng yǒu jǐshíwàn dǎngyuán, tāmen zài lǐngdǎo rénmín, xiàngzhe dírén zuò jiānkǔzhuójué de dòuzhēng. [Pinyin]

     The Party has several hundred thousand members who are leading the people in extremely hard and bitter struggles against the enemy.