进退维谷 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 進退維谷 jìntuìwéigǔ ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄊㄨㄟˋ ㄨㄟˊ ㄍㄨˇ no room to advance or to retreat (idiom) without any way out of a dilemma trapped in an impossible situation Character by character 进(jìn)go forward 退(tuì)retreat 维(wéi)surname Wei 谷(gǔ)grain A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0