鯉魚跳龍門 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 鲤鱼跳龙门 lǐyútiàolóngmén ㄌㄧˇ ㄩˊ ㄊㄧㄠˋ ㄌㄨㄥˊ ㄇㄣˊ to make a significant advance in one's career (idiom) to get one's big break Character by character 鯉(lǐ)carp 魚(yú)surname Yu 跳(tiào)jump 龍(lóng)surname Long 門(mén)surname Men A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0