切肤之痛
Traditional form:
切膚之痛
Pinyin (reading):
qièfūzhītòng
Definitions:
- keenly felt pain
- bitter anguish
Characters:
- 切 - to cut, to mince, to slice, to carve; close to; eager
- 肤 - skin; shallow, superficial
- 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
- 痛 - ache, pain; bitterness, sorrow; deeply, thoroughly
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