倒悬之苦

dào xuán zhī kǔ

परिभाषाएँ

1. lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
2. dire straits

倒悬之苦 के घटक शब्द

• 之 zhī: (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de])
• 倒 dǎo: to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally
• 倒 dào: to invert; to place upside down or frontside back
• 悬 xuán: to hang or suspend
• 苦 kǔ: bitter
• 倒悬 dào xuán: lit. to hang upside down