開弓沒有回頭箭

lit. once you've shot the arrow, there's no getting it back (idiom) / fig. once you started sth, there's no turning back / to have to finish what one started / to be determined to reach one's goals in spite of setbacks

to open / to start / to turn on / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / to operate (a vehicle) / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2] / abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format

a bow (weapon) / CL:張|张[zhang1] / to bend / to arch (one's back etc)

(negative prefix for verbs) / have not / not

drowned / to end / to die / to inundate

(negative prefix for verbs) have not; not

haven't / hasn't / doesn't exist / to not have / to not be

to have; there is / (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)

to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book)

to curve / to return / to revolve

variant of 迴|回[hui2]

to turn round; to turn one's head / later; by and by

head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL:個|个[ge4]

suffix for nouns

arrow / CL:支[zhi1]