saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom)
trad. 救人一命勝造七級浮屠
Also written 救人一命勝造七級浮屠【jiù rén yī mìng shèng zào qī jí fú tú】
Characters in this word
10救
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variant of 救[jiu4]
- Pinyin
- jiù
- Traditional
- 捄
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 489 of 2500
人
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person; people, CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- Pinyin
- rén
- Strokes
- 2
- Frequency
- 30 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
命
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life, fate, order or command, to assign a name, title etc
- Pinyin
- mìng
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 1561 of 2500
胜
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victory, success, to beat, to defeat, to surpass, victorious, superior to, to get the better of, better than, surpassing, superb (of vista), beautiful (scenery), wonderful (view), (Taiwan pr. [sheng1]) able to bear, equal to (a task)
- Pinyin
- shèng
- Traditional
- 勝
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 11136 of 2500
造
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to make, to build, to manufacture, to invent, to fabricate, to go to, party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement), crop, classifier for crops
- Pinyin
- zào
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 4424 of 2500
七
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seven, 7
- Pinyin
- qī
- Strokes
- 2
- Frequency
- 3044 of 2500
级
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level, grade, rank, step (of stairs), CL:個|个[ge4], classifier: step, level
- Pinyin
- jí
- Traditional
- 級
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 4861 of 2500
浮
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to float, superficial, floating, unstable, movable, provisional, temporary, transient, impetuous, hollow, inflated, to exceed, superfluous, excessive, surplus
- Pinyin
- fú
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 20077 of 2500
屠
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surname Tu
- Pinyin
- Tú
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 45652 of 2500