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愚公移山

yú gōng yí shān

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

愚公移山 (yú gōng yí shān) means "the old man moves mountains (idiom); fig. where there's a will, there's a way". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 愚公移山 means

1. the old man moves mountains (idiom); fig. where there's a will, there's a way

The characters in 愚公移山

• 愚yúto be stupid; to cheat or deceive; me or I (modest)
• 公gōngpublic; collectively owned; common
• 移yíto move; to shift; to change
• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on

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