"백척간두" meaning in Korean

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        "1": "百",
        "2": "hundred",
        "3": "尺",
        "4": "feet (unit of measurement)",
        "5": "竿頭",
        "6": "tip of a pole"
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      "name": "ko-etym-sino"
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  "etymology_text": "Sino-Korean word from 百 (“hundred”) + 尺 (“feet (unit of measurement)”) + 竿頭 (“tip of a pole”), from a poem by Tang dynasty Zen monk Changsha Jingcen (788—868).",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "baekcheokgandu",
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        "romanization"
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      "form": "百尺竿頭",
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        "hanja": "百尺竿頭"
      },
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      "name": "ko-noun"
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  "lang": "Korean",
  "lang_code": "ko",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "alt": "百尺竿頭進一步",
          "roman": "baekcheokgandujinilbo",
          "word": "백척간두진일보"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I feel bone-chilling fear and terror on this hundred-feet pole […] But I cannot forsake my responsibility.",
          "ref": "2020, Choo Mi-ae, “추미애 '백척간두서 살떨리는 공포 느껴… 흔들림없이 전진' [chumiae baekcheokganduseo saltteollineun gongpo neukkyeo… heundeullimeopsi jeonjin]”, in Hankook Ilbo",
          "text": "이 백척간두에서 살떨리는 무서움과 공포를 느낍니다[…]저의 소임을 접을 수가 없습니다. (Quoting directly from Choo's Facebook post, linked in the article.)\nI baekcheokgandu-eseo saltteollineun museoum-gwa gongpo-reul neukkimnida[…]jeo-ui soim-eul jeobeul su-ga eopseumnida.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an extremely perilous situation, literally \"atop a pole a hundred feet high\""
      ],
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          "고사성어"
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        ],
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        "(four-character idiom from Classical Chinese) an extremely perilous situation, literally \"atop a pole a hundred feet high\""
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "alt": "進退兩難",
          "word": "진퇴양난"
        },
        {
          "alt": "四面楚歌",
          "word": "사면초가"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "zh:长沙景岑"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[pɛk̚t͡ɕʰʌ̹k̚k͈a̠ndu]",
      "tags": [
        "SK-Standard",
        "Seoul"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pe̞k̚t͡ɕʰʌ̹k̚k͈a̠ndu]",
      "tags": [
        "SK-Standard",
        "Seoul"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "백척간두"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "alt": "百尺竿頭進一步",
      "roman": "baekcheokgandujinilbo",
      "word": "백척간두진일보"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "百",
        "2": "hundred",
        "3": "尺",
        "4": "feet (unit of measurement)",
        "5": "竿頭",
        "6": "tip of a pole"
      },
      "expansion": "Sino-Korean word from 百 (“hundred”) + 尺 (“feet (unit of measurement)”) + 竿頭 (“tip of a pole”)",
      "name": "ko-etym-sino"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Sino-Korean word from 百 (“hundred”) + 尺 (“feet (unit of measurement)”) + 竿頭 (“tip of a pole”), from a poem by Tang dynasty Zen monk Changsha Jingcen (788—868).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "baekcheokgandu",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "百尺竿頭",
      "tags": [
        "hanja"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "hanja": "百尺竿頭"
      },
      "expansion": "백척간두 • (baekcheokgandu) (hanja 百尺竿頭)",
      "name": "ko-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "ko",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Korean terms with redundant script codes",
        "Korean terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Sino-Korean words"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I feel bone-chilling fear and terror on this hundred-feet pole […] But I cannot forsake my responsibility.",
          "ref": "2020, Choo Mi-ae, “추미애 '백척간두서 살떨리는 공포 느껴… 흔들림없이 전진' [chumiae baekcheokganduseo saltteollineun gongpo neukkyeo… heundeullimeopsi jeonjin]”, in Hankook Ilbo",
          "text": "이 백척간두에서 살떨리는 무서움과 공포를 느낍니다[…]저의 소임을 접을 수가 없습니다. (Quoting directly from Choo's Facebook post, linked in the article.)\nI baekcheokgandu-eseo saltteollineun museoum-gwa gongpo-reul neukkimnida[…]jeo-ui soim-eul jeobeul su-ga eopseumnida.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an extremely perilous situation, literally \"atop a pole a hundred feet high\""
      ],
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          "고사성어"
        ],
        [
          "extremely",
          "extremely"
        ],
        [
          "perilous",
          "perilous"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ],
        [
          "atop",
          "atop"
        ],
        [
          "pole",
          "pole"
        ],
        [
          "hundred",
          "hundred"
        ],
        [
          "feet",
          "feet"
        ],
        [
          "high",
          "high"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "four-character idiom from Classical Chinese",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(four-character idiom from Classical Chinese) an extremely perilous situation, literally \"atop a pole a hundred feet high\""
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "alt": "進退兩難",
          "word": "진퇴양난"
        },
        {
          "alt": "四面楚歌",
          "word": "사면초가"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "zh:长沙景岑"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[pɛk̚t͡ɕʰʌ̹k̚k͈a̠ndu]",
      "tags": [
        "SK-Standard",
        "Seoul"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pe̞k̚t͡ɕʰʌ̹k̚k͈a̠ndu]",
      "tags": [
        "SK-Standard",
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    }
  ],
  "word": "백척간두"
}