坚苦卓绝
Traditional form:
堅苦卓絕
Pinyin (reading):
jiānkǔzhuójué
Definitions:
- persisting despite trials and tribulations (idiom); conspicuous determination
Characters:
- 坚 - hard, strong; firm, resolute
- 苦 - bitter; hardship, suffering
- 卓 - profound, lofty, brilliant
- 绝 - to cut, to sever; to break off, to terminate
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