弹尽粮绝

Traditional form:

彈盡糧絕

Pinyin (reading):

dànjìnliángjué

Definitions:

• out of ammunition and no food left (idiom); in desperate straits

Characters:

• 弹 - bullet, pellet, shell; elastic, springy
• 尽 - to exhaust, to use up, to deplete
• 粮 - food, grain, provisions
• 绝 - to cut, to sever; to break off, to terminate

Traditional characters:

• 彈 - bullet, pellet, shell; elastic, springy
• 盡 - to exhaust, to use up, to deplete
• 糧 - food, grain, provisions
• 絕 - to cut, to sever; to break off, to terminate