穿小鞋 Save Sign in to save words On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. chuānxiǎoxié ㄔㄨㄢ ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄒㄧㄝˊ 男 女 to have one's life made difficult by sb (usu. by sb in a position of authority) (lit. to be made to wear tight shoes) Character by character 穿(chuān)bore through 小(xiǎo)small 鞋(xié)shoe A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT