汗牛充栋
Traditional form:
汗牛充棟
Pinyin (reading):
hànniúchōngdòng
Definitions:
- lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
Characters:
- 汗 - perspiration, sweat
- 牛 - ox, cow, bull
- 充 - to fill, to supply; to be full
- 栋 - ridge-beam; the main support of a house
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