擢 发 难 数

zhuó fà nán shǔdictionary entry

lit. as difficult to count as hair pulled from sb's head (idiom) / fig. innumerable (crimes)

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Original source entry:

擢髮難數 擢发难数 [zhuo2 fa4 nan2 shu3] /lit. as difficult to count as hair pulled from sb's head (idiom)/fig. innumerable (crimes)/

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Other forms in these source records: 擢髮難數

擢
zhuó
to pull out / to select / to promote
发
fā
to send out / to show (one's feeling) / to issue / to develop / to make a bundle of money / classifier for gunshots (rounds)
fà
hair / Taiwan pr. [fǎ]
难
nán
difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good
nàn
disaster / distress / to scold
数
shǔ
to count / to count as / to regard as / to enumerate / to list
shù
number / figure / several / a few
shuò
(literary) frequently / repeatedly

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