聚螢映雪 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 聚萤映雪 jùyíngyìngxuě ㄐㄩˋ ㄧㄥˊ ㄧㄥˋ ㄒㄩㄝˇ lit. to collect fireflies and study by their light (idiom) fig. ambitious student from impoverished background burning the midnight oil Character by character 聚(jù)assemble 螢(yíng)firefly 映(yìng)become visible 雪(xuě)surname Xue A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0