騎虎難下

Chinese

		to ride (an animal or bike); to sit astride	tiger	disaster; distress; to scold disaster; distress; to scold; difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good	under; next; lower under; next; lower; below; underneath; down(wards); to go down; latter
trad. (騎虎難下)		騎	虎	難	下
simp. (骑虎难下)		骑	虎	难	下
Literally: “ride a tiger and find it difficult to dismount”.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qíhǔnánxià

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ ㄏㄨˇ ㄋㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄚˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ke⁴ fu² naan⁴ haa⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qíhǔnánxià
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ ㄏㄨˇ ㄋㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cíhǔnánsià
  - Wade–Giles: chʻi²-hu³-nan²-hsia⁴
  - Yale: chí-hǔ-nán-syà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyihuunanshiah
  - Palladius: цихунанься (cixunanʹsja)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵ xu²¹⁴⁻²¹ nän³⁵ ɕi̯ä⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ke⁴ fu² naan⁴ haa⁶
  - Yale: kèh fú nàahn hah
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ke⁴ fu² naan⁴ haa⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: ké⁴ fu² nan⁴ ha⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɛː²¹ fuː³⁵ naːn²¹ haː²²/

Idiom

騎虎難下

(figurative) to get into a situation where both proceeding forward and backing down are difficult

Synonyms

進退兩難／进退两难 (jìntuìliǎngnán)
進退維谷／进退维谷 (jìntuìwéigǔ)

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