蜡烛两头烧 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 蠟燭兩頭燒 làzhúliǎngtóushāo ㄌㄚˋ ㄓㄨˊ ㄌㄧㄤˇ ㄊㄡˊ ㄕㄠ to burn the candle at both ends (idiom) to labor under a double burden Character by character 蜡(là)candle 烛(zhú)candle 两(liǎng)two 头(tóu)head 烧(shāo)burn A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0