{"path":"/entry/51799","title":"日暮途穷 / 日暮途窮 (rì mù tú qióng) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"日暮途穷 / 日暮途窮 (rì mù tú qióng): sunset, the end of the road (idiom) · in terminal decline. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":51799,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["日暮途穷"],"TRADITIONAL":["日暮途窮"]}},"phonetic":"rì mù tú qióng","phoneticKey":"ri4 mu4 tu2 qiong2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"sunset, the end of the road ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"in terminal decline","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"at a dead end","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Based on an allusion of Wu Zixu's words, see 倒行逆施 (dàoxíngnìshī) entry for more, with a few different characters.","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Directly from Du Fu's poem Twenty Couplets Dedicated to Commander Geshu","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"几年春草歇，今日暮途穷。","traditional":"幾年春草歇，今日暮途窮。"},"phonetic":"Jǐnián chūncǎo xiē, jīnrì mùtú qióng.","english":"Like withering spring grass, only a few years are left in my fate.\nIn waning age, I’ve run out of alternatives.","ref":"754, 杜甫,《投贈哥舒開府翰二十韻》"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}