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山穷水尽

shān qióng shuǐ jìn

4-character word Traditional 山窮水盡

What 山穷水尽 means

1. mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line
2. nowhere to go

The characters in 山穷水尽

• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
• 穷qióngpoor; destitute; to use up
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
• 尽jìnto use up; to exhaust; to end

Example sentences

• 山穷水尽疑无路，柳暗花明又一村。
  Shānqióngshuǐjìn yí wú lù, liǔ'ànhuāmíng yòu yī cūn.
  Every cloud has a silver lining.