山穷水尽
Traditional form:
山窮水盡
Pinyin (reading):
shānqióngshuǐjìn
Definitions:
- mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line
- nowhere to go
Characters:
- 山 - mountain, hill, peak
- 穷 - poor, destitute; to exhaust
- 水 - water, liquid, lotion, juice
- 尽 - to exhaust, to use up, to deplete
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