千锤百炼
Traditional form:
千錘百鍊
Pinyin (reading):
qiānchuíbǎiliàn
Definitions:
- after hard work and numerous revisions (idiom)
- the vicissitudes of life
Characters:
- 千 - thousand; many, numerous; very
- 锤 - hammer
- 百 - one hundred; numerous, many
- 炼 - to smelt, to refine; to distill, to condense
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