举步维艰 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 舉步維艱 jǔbùwéijiān ㄐㄩˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄨㄟˊ ㄐㄧㄢ to make progress only with great difficulty (idiom) Character by character 举(jǔ)lift 步(bù)surname Bu 维(wéi)surname Wei 艰(jiān)difficult A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0