huqin / family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring
三弦
sān xián
sanxian, large family of 3-stringed plucked musical instruments, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and long neck, used in folk music, opera and Chinese orchestra
the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), covered by the acronym 苦集滅道|苦集灭道[ku3 ji2 mie4 dao4]: all life is suffering 苦[ku3], the cause of suffering is desire 集[ji2], emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭[mie4], the way 道[dao4] to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道[ba1 zheng4 dao4]
pastry bun filled with chocolate and covered with cocoa powder
虱子多了不痒,债多了不愁
shī zi duō le bù yǎng , zhài duō le bù chóu
lit. when covered with lice, one doesn't feel the itching anymore, and when up to one's ears in debt, one ceases to worry about it (saying) / fig. to be past worrying (about sth)
虱多不痒
shī duō - bù yǎng
lit. when covered with lice, one doesn't feel the itching anymore (idiom) / fig. to be past worrying (about sth)
遍体鳞伤
biàn tǐ - lín shāng
(idiom) covered all over with cuts and bruises / beaten black and blue