熬出頭 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 熬出头 áochūtóu ㄠˊ ㄔㄨ ㄊㄡˊ to break clear of all the troubles and hardships to achieve success to make it Character by character 熬(áo)cook on a slow fire 出(chū)go out 頭(tóu)head A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0