孤掌难鸣 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 孤掌難鳴 gūzhǎngnánmíng ㄍㄨ ㄓㄤˇ ㄋㄢˊ ㄇㄧㄥˊ It's hard to clap with only one hand. It takes two to tango It's difficult to achieve anything without support. Character by character 孤(gū)lone 掌(zhǎng)palm of the hand 难(nán)difficult 鸣(míng)cry A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0