困獸

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Chinese

distress; sleepy; doze off beast; quadruped
trad. (困獸)
simp. (困兽)

Pronunciation


Noun

困獸

  1. beast under siege
  2. (figurative) one in a hopeless situation; one who has fallen into an impasse; one on the edge of a precipice

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