rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom)
trad. 寧拆十座廟，不毀一樁婚
Also written 寧拆十座廟，不毀一樁婚【nìng chāi shí zuò miào , bù huǐ yī zhuāng hūn】
Characters in this word
10宁
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old variant of 寧|宁[ning4]
- Pinyin
- nìng
- Traditional
- 寕
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 25828 of 2500
拆
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to tear open, to tear down, to tear apart, to open
- Pinyin
- chāi
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 5175 of 2500
十
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ten, 10
- Pinyin
- shí
- Strokes
- 2
- Frequency
- 4521 of 2500
座
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seat, base; stand, (bound form) constellation, (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g. 師座|师座[shi1 zuo4]), classifier for large immovable objects such as buildings, mountains, bridges etc
- Pinyin
- zuò
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 5178 of 2500
庙
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temple, ancestral shrine, CL:座[zuo4], temple fair, great imperial hall, imperial
- Pinyin
- miào
- Traditional
- 廟
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 20258 of 2500
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
毁
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to destroy; to ruin, to defame; to slander
- Pinyin
- huǐ
- Traditional
- 毀
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 1535 of 2500
一
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one, single, a (article), as soon as, entire; whole; all; throughout, "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1), also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- Pinyin
- yī
- Strokes
- 1
- Frequency
- 158 of 2500
桩
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stump; stake; pile, classifier for events, cases, transactions, affairs etc
- Pinyin
- zhuāng
- Traditional
- 樁
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 23624 of 2500
婚
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(bound form) marriage; wedding, (bound form) to marry
- Pinyin
- hūn
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 7697 of 2500