惨淡经营

Traditional form:

慘淡經營

Pinyin (reading):

cǎndànjīngyíng

Definitions:

• to manage by painstaking effort (idiom)

Characters:

• 惨 - miserable, wretched; cruel, inhuman
• 淡 - watery, dilute; insipid, tasteless
• 经 - the classics; to experience, to undergo
• 营 - camp, barracks, army; to run, to manage

Traditional characters:

• 慘 - miserable, wretched; cruel, inhuman
• 淡 - watery, dilute; insipid, tasteless
• 經 - the classics; to experience, to undergo
• 營 - camp, barracks, army; to run, to manage