弹尽援绝
Traditional form:
彈盡援絕
Pinyin (reading):
dànjìnyuánjué
Definitions:
- out of ammunition and no hope of reinforcements (idiom); in desperate straits
Characters:
- 弹 - bullet, pellet, shell; elastic, springy
- 尽 - to exhaust, to use up, to deplete
- 援 - to assist; to lead; to quote, to cite
- 绝 - to cut, to sever; to break off, to terminate
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