a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom)
trad. 好漢不吃眼前虧
Also written 好漢不吃眼前虧【hǎo hàn bù chī yǎn qián kuī】
Characters in this word
7好
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good, appropriate; proper, all right!, (before a verb) easy to, (before a verb) good to, (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so, (verb complement indicating completion), (of two people) close; on intimate terms, (after a form of address) hello
- Pinyin
- hǎo
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 11 of 2500
汉
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Han ethnic group, Chinese (language), the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
- Pinyin
- Hàn
- Traditional
- 漢
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 10539 of 2500
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
吃
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to eat; to consume, to eat at (a cafeteria etc), to eradicate; to destroy, to absorb, to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- Pinyin
- chī
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 143 of 2500
眼
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eye (CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1]), (often used with 一[yi1]) a look; a glance, small hole, (bound form) salient point, classifier for wells, cave-dwellings etc
- Pinyin
- yǎn
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 4324 of 2500
前
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front, forward, ahead, first, top (followed by a number), future, ago, before, BC (e.g. 前293年), former, formerly
- Pinyin
- qián
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 256 of 2500
亏
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to lose (money); to have a deficit, to be deficient, to treat unfairly, luckily; fortunately; thanks to, (used to introduce an ironic remark about sb who has fallen short of expectations)
- Pinyin
- kuī
- Traditional
- 虧
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 15724 of 2500