one 's heart ached as if pierced by ten thousand arrows(wàn jiàn cuán xīn)

one 's heart ached as if pierced by ten thousand arrows

Chinese idiom, w à NJI à NCU á nx à n in pinyin, means to gather ten thousand arrows in one's heart. Describe the mood of extreme sadness. It's from duyizhi.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] burning within five, heart like a knife antonym] elated

The origin of Idioms

"Liang Shenyue's family has 120000 volumes of books, but his heart is eccentric and evil. When he hears about people's kindness, his heart is full of arrows."

Idiom usage

Subject predicate construction; as object; for people. Chapter 89 of Ming Shi Naian's outlaws of the Marsh: "Qiong Ying knows the news like a thousand arrows, weeping day and night, stealing bullets with tears." Feng Menglong's Yu Shi Ming Yan Volume 8: seeing others go, he can't fly hard, but he can't feel tears. Chapter 11 of Cao Xueqin's a dream of Red Mansions in Qing Dynasty: "after listening to Qin's words, he felt like thousands of arrows gathered together, and his tears flowed down." Chapter 27 of Shi Yukun's "three heroes and five righteousness" in Qing Dynasty: "when they saw it, one was hanged and the other was strangled. It was the time when Qi blocked their throats and thousands of arrows were full of heart. They felt so miserable that they fell down at the same time. "The seventh chapter of the wild old man's speech:" it's like a thousand arrows to hear the last paragraph of my brother's speech. 」

Chinese PinYin : wàn jiàn cuán xīn