上天无路，入地无门
Traditional form:
上天無路，入地無門
Pinyin (reading):
shàngtiānwúlù,rùdìwúmén
Definitions:
- lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom)
- fig. to be at the end of one's rope
- to be trapped in a hopeless situation
Characters:
- 上 - above, on top, superior; to go up; to attend; previous
- 天 - sky, heaven; god, celestial
- 无 - no, not; lacking, -less
- 路 - road, path, street; journey
- 入 - to enter, to come in; to join
- 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
- 无 - no, not; lacking, -less
- 门 - gate, door, entrance, opening
Traditional characters:
- 上 - above, on top, superior; to go up; to attend; previous
- 天 - sky, heaven; god, celestial
- 無 - no, not; lacking, -less
- 路 - road, path, street; journey
- 入 - to enter, to come in; to join
- 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
- 無 - no, not; lacking, -less
- 門 - gate, door, entrance, opening