{"path":"/entry/9753","title":"债台高筑 / 債臺高築 (zhài tái gāo zhù) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"债台高筑 / 債臺高築 (zhài tái gāo zhù): literally build a high desk of debt (idiom) · heavily in debt. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":9753,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["债台高筑"],"TRADITIONAL":["債臺高築"]}},"phonetic":"zhài tái gāo zhù","phoneticKey":"zhai4 tai2 gao1 zhu4","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally build a high desk of debt ","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":"heavily in debt","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADVERB","VERB"],"frequency":38198,"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":"From the legend of King Nan of Zhou, the last king of Zhou dynasty, who hid himself on a platform in the palace to avoid people demanding him to pay back the debt for wars, as quoted in the Book of Han","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"自幽、平之后，日以陵夷，至呼阸𨸟河洛之间，分为二周，有逃责之台，被窃铁之言。","traditional":"自幽、平之後，日以陵夷，至虖阸䧢河洛之間，分為二周，有逃責之臺，被竊鐵之言。"},"phonetic":"Zì yōu, píng zhī hòu, rì yǐ língyí, zhì hū èqū héluò zhījiān, fēnwèi èr zhōu, yǒu táo zhài zhī tái, bèi qiè tiě zhī yán.","english":null,"ref":"The Book of Han, circa 1ˢᵗ century CE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}