過關斬將 guò guān zhǎn jiàng

DEFINITIONS

  1. to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success) (idiom)
  2. abbr. for 過五關斬六將|过五关斩六将[guo4 wu3 guan1 zhan3 liu4 jiang4]

CHARACTERS

過 guò pass, pass through, go across
關 guān frontier pass; close; relation
斬 zhǎn cut, chop, sever; behead
將 jiàng will, going to, future; general