任重道远
Simplified word
任重道遠
Traditional word
任重道远 English definition
rèn zhòng dào yuǎn
- a heavy load and a long road
- fig. to bear heavy responsibilities through a long struggle (cf Confucian Analects, 8.7)
rèn zhòng dào yuǎn
- a heavy load and a long road
- fig. to bear heavy responsibilities through a long struggle (cf Confucian Analects, 8.7)
HSK level
Characters
- 任 (rèn): to assign; to appoint; to take up a post; office; responsibility; to let; to allow; to give free rein to; no matter (how, what etc); classifier for the number of terms served in office, post, or rank;
- 重 (zhòng): heavy; serious; to attach importance to;
- 道 (dào): direction; way; road; path; CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]; principle; truth; morality; reason; skill; method; Dao (of Daoism); to say; to speak; to talk; classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; province (of Korea or Japan);
- 远 (yuǎn): far; distant; remote; (intensifier in a comparison) by far; much (lower etc);