fullness for the bold, famine for the timid (idiom)
trad. 撐死膽大的，餓死膽小的
Also written 撐死膽大的，餓死膽小的【chēng sǐ dǎn dà de , è sǐ dǎn xiǎo de】
Characters in this word
7撑
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to support, to prop up, to push or move with a pole, to maintain, to open or unfurl, to fill to bursting point, brace, stay, support
- Pinyin
- chēng
- Traditional
- 撐
- Strokes
- 15
- Frequency
- 4573 of 2500
死
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to die, impassable, uncrossable, inflexible, rigid, extremely, damned
- Pinyin
- sǐ
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 113 of 2500
胆
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gall bladder, courage, guts, gall, inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos)
- Pinyin
- dǎn
- Traditional
- 膽
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 15530 of 2500
大
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big; large; great, older (than another person), eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]), greatly; freely; fully, (dialect) father, (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- Pinyin
- dà
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 199 of 2500
的
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of; ~'s (possessive particle), (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun), (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis), (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的[pi2 ge2 de5] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的[pao3 tang2 r5 de5] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xin1 de5] "new one"), also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs
- Pinyin
- de
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 1 of 2500
饿
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hungry, to starve (sb)
- Pinyin
- è
- Traditional
- 餓
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 1298 of 2500
小
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small, tiny, few, young
- Pinyin
- xiǎo
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 245 of 2500