羝羊触藩
Traditional form:
羝羊觸藩
Pinyin (reading):
dīyángchùfān
Definitions:
- lit. billy goat's horns caught in the fence (idiom from Book of Changes 易經／易经); impossible to advance or to retreat
- without any way out of a dilemma
- trapped
- in an impossible situation
Characters:
- 羝 - ram, he-goat
- 羊 - sheep, goat
- 触 - to butt, to gore, to ram; to touch
- 藩 - boundary, fence, outlying border
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