長坂坡七進七出

famous scene in Romance of the Three Kingdoms in which Zhao Yun 趙雲|赵云 charges seven times through the ranks of Cao Cao's armies

length / long / forever / always / constantly

chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance

variant of 阪[ban3]

variant of 阪[ban3]

slope / CL:個|个[ge4] / sloping / slanted

seven / 7

to go forward / to advance / to go in / to enter / to put in / to submit / to take in / to admit / (math.) base of a number system / classifier for sections in a building or residential compound

to go out / to come out / to occur / to produce / to go beyond / to rise / to put forth / to happen / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc

variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)