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zá guō mài tiě
idiom. smash one's iron pots and pans into pieces and sell them as scrapped iron -- surrender one's last resource, not hesitate to sacrifice one's all
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Simplified Chinese

Traditional Chinese

Simplified stroke orders are based on the 'Standard of National Commonly-used Mandarin Chinese Characters (现代汉语通用字笔顺规范)', issued by the China National Language and Character Working Committee (国家语言文字工作委员会) on April 7th 1997. Traditional stroke orders are based on information issued by the Taiwan Ministry of Education.
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jiù shì zá guō mài tiě, wó yě yào ràng ér zi qù měi guó dú shū !
phr. Even if (I have to come to the point of) selling everything I own, I will do so, so that I can let my son go study in the US!