千錘百鍊 Save Create a free account to save words Simplified: 千锤百炼 qiānchuíbǎiliàn ㄑㄧㄢ ㄔㄨㄟˊ ㄅㄞˇ ㄌㄧㄢˋ 男 女 after hard work and numerous revisions (idiom) the vicissitudes of life Character by character 千(qiān)thousand 錘(chuí)hammer 百(bǎi)numerous 鍊(liàn) Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0