jǔ bù wéi jiān

Traditional: 舉步維艱

举步维艰 (jǔ bù wéi jiān) is a Chinese word meaning “to make progress only with great difficulty (idiom)”.

Meanings

  1. 1to make progress only with great difficulty (idiom)

Characters in 举步维艰

举jǔ · to lift步bù · a step维wéi · to preserve艰jiān · difficult

Related words

步a step步surname Bu举to lift举variant of 舉|举[ju3]维to preserve维abbr. for Uighur 維吾爾|维吾尔[Wei2 wu2 er3]艰难difficult举行to hold (a meeting, ceremony etc)进步progress; improvement维持to keep; to maintain; to preserve进一步to go a step further散步to take a walk; to go for a walk

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