肝肠寸断

Traditional form:

肝腸寸斷

Pinyin (reading):

gānchángcùnduàn

Definitions:

• lit. liver and guts cut to pieces (idiom)
• fig. grief-stricken

Characters:

• 肝 - liver
• 肠 - intestines; emotions; sausage
• 寸 - inch; small, tiny
• 断 - to sever, to cut off, to interrupt

Traditional characters:

• 肝 - liver
• 腸 - intestines; emotions; sausage
• 寸 - inch; small, tiny
• 斷 - to sever, to cut off, to interrupt