lit. just because Zhang the butcher dies, doesn't mean we'll have to eat pork mixed with bristles (idiom); fig. nobody is indispensable
trad. 死了張屠夫，不吃混毛豬
Also written 死了張屠夫，不吃混毛豬【sǐ le Zhāng tú fū , bù chī hùn máo zhū】
Characters in this word
10死
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to die, impassable, uncrossable, inflexible, rigid, extremely, damned
- Pinyin
- sǐ
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 113 of 2500
了
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(completed action marker), (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now), (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
- Pinyin
- le
- Strokes
- 2
- Frequency
- 4 of 2500
张
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surname Zhang
- Pinyin
- Zhāng
- Traditional
- 張
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 1981 of 2500
屠
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surname Tu
- Pinyin
- Tú
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 45652 of 2500
夫
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husband, man, manual worker, conscripted laborer (old)
- Pinyin
- fū
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 4038 of 2500
不
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
吃
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
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
混
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muddy; turbid (variant of 渾|浑[hun2]), brainless; foolish (variant of 渾|浑[hun2]), Taiwan pr. [hun4]
- Pinyin
- hún
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 2976 of 2500
毛
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surname Mao
- Pinyin
- Máo
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 2649 of 2500
猪
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
hog, pig, swine, CL:口[kou3],頭|头[tou2]
- Pinyin
- zhū
- Traditional
- 豬
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 1951 of 2500