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痛定思痛

tòng dìng sī tòng

4-character word

What 痛定思痛 means

1. to think of the pain when the pain is gone (idiom)
2. to ponder about a painful experience

The characters in 痛定思痛

• 痛tòngache; pain; sorrow
• 定dìngto fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc)…
• 思sīto think; to consider
• 痛tòngache; pain; sorrow

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