舉步維艱 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 举步维艰 jǔbùwéijiān ㄐㄩˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄨㄟˊ ㄐㄧㄢ to make progress only with great difficulty (idiom) Character by character 舉(jǔ)lift 步(bù)surname Bu 維(wéi)surname Wei 艱(jiān)difficult A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0