擢髮難數

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Chinese

pull out; select hair
disaster; distress; to scold
disaster; distress; to scold; difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good
 
number; figure; to count
number; figure; to count; to calculate; several; frequently; repeatedly
 
trad. (擢髮難數)
simp. (擢发难数)
Literally: “so many that one cannot finish counting even with all strands of hair pulled out”.

Etymology

From Records of the Grand Historian:

(須賈):「。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
(须贾):「。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
(Xū Jiǎ) yuē: “Zhuó gǔ zhī gǔ zhī zuì, shàng wèi zú.”
Xu Jia said: “I have committed so many sins that it even if you pull away all my hair for counting them would not be enough.”

Pronunciation


Idiom

擢髮難數

  1. (of crimes) innumerable

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