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蜡烛两头烧

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5-character word Traditional 蠟燭兩頭燒

What 蜡烛两头烧 means

1. to burn the candle at both ends (idiom)
2. to labor under a double burden

The characters in 蜡烛两头烧

• 蜡làcandle; wax
• 烛zhúcandle; (literary) to illuminate
• 两liǎngtwo; both; some
• 头tóuhead; hair style; the top
• 烧shāoto burn; to set on fire; to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc); to braise