nhất tướng công thành vạn cốt khô
Pronunciation
Northern
/ɲət˧˥ tɨəŋ˧˥ kəwŋ˧˧ tʰa̤jŋ˨˩ va̰ːʔn˨˩ kot˧˥ xo˧˧/
Central
/ɲə̰k˩˧ tɨə̰ŋ˩˧ kəwŋ˧˥ tʰan˧˧ ja̰ːŋ˨˨ ko̰k˩˧ kʰo˧˥/
Southern
/ɲək˧˥ tɨəŋ˧˥ kəwŋ˧˧ tʰan˨˩ jaːŋ˨˩˨ kok˧˥ kʰo˧˧/
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high price of victory
Phrase
high price of victory
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Sense 1
Phrase
high price of victory Politics, Law, Institutions & Safety
An idiom saying that success may require heavy sacrifice and casualties.
Parts
一將工城萬骨枯
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Parts
一將工城萬骨枯
Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
一將工城萬骨枯
Candidates by syllable
nhất
一
tướng
將
công
工
thành
城
vạn
萬
cốt
骨（傦 / 縎）
khô
枯（𩹬）
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
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Politics, Law, Institutions & Safety
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Politics, Law, Institutions & Safety