蠟燭兩頭燒 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 蜡烛两头烧 làzhúliǎngtóushāo ㄌㄚˋ ㄓㄨˊ ㄌㄧㄤˇ ㄊㄡˊ ㄕㄠ to burn the candle at both ends (idiom) to labor under a double burden Character by character 蠟(là)candle 燭(zhú)candle 兩(liǎng)two 頭(tóu)head 燒(shāo)burn A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0