任重道遠

a heavy load and a long road / fig. to bear heavy responsibilities through a long struggle (cf Confucian Analects, 8.7)

Characters and words in 任重道遠

surname Ren / Ren County 任縣|任县[Ren2 Xian4] in Hebei

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 terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)

任 = 亻 + 壬 : An assignment written down on a heap of paper. Robinson Crusoe agreed to take care of Rosa Luxemburg's cat o' nine tails for a few days. Rosa wrote down his assignment on paper and handles him the heap in the encampment's bathroom.

任

rèn

重

zhòng

a load / a heavy burden

重

chóng = chu + (e)ng2

to repeat / repetition / again / re- / classifier: layer

重 = 千 + 里 : Chantal Chicken set a new world record in the engine's kitchen. She repeatedly rode a space elevator up and down, one thousand times in total. For setting the world record she got a sunflower.

重

zhòng = zhu + (e)ng4

heavy / serious / to attach importance to

重 = 千 + 里 : This one looks like a space elevator. The two top strokes are the heavens, the two bottom strokes are the earth and the part in between is the space elevator.

重 = 千 + 里 : Julian Giant Squid installed a space elevator in the engine's bathroom, and now he wants to find out how heavy the load can be. For his first trip he loads 1000 times 1 kilo, and to celebrate the grand opening, he brought a sunflower.

道

dào = d + ao4

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 / (old) circuit (administrative division)

道 = 辶 + 首 : The chief and Don Quixote decided to follow the path of the Dao in the aorta's bathroom. They wear gladiator sandals and meditate sitting on the floor of the bathroom, envisioning the path to enlightment.

远

遠

yuǎn = yu + an3

far / distant / remote / (intensifier in a comparison) by far / much (lower etc)

远 = 元 + 辶 : In anthill Yu the Great spent already hundreds of coins on a claw crane, because she wants these gladiator sandals so badly. She tries again and again, but she always moves the claw too far.

远

遠

yuàn = yu + an4

to distance oneself from (classical)

Words with 任重道遠

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Sentences with 任重道遠

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