孤掌難鳴 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 孤掌难鸣 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 難(nán)difficult 鳴(míng)cry A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0