a prodigal son returned home is worth more than gold
trad. 浪子回頭金不換
Also written 浪子回頭金不換【làng zǐ huí tóu jīn bù huàn】
Characters in this word
7浪
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
wave, breaker, unrestrained, dissipated, to stroll, to ramble
- Pinyin
- làng
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 13032 of 2500
子
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son, child, seed, egg, small thing, 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat, viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4], ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north), subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
- Pinyin
- zǐ
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 2170 of 2500
回
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Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims)
- Pinyin
- Huí
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 471 of 2500
头
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head, hair style, the top, end, beginning or end, a stub, remnant, chief, boss, side, aspect, first, leading, classifier for pigs or livestock, CL:個|个[ge4]
- Pinyin
- tóu
- Traditional
- 頭
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 773 of 2500
金
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surname Jin, surname Kim (Korean), Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
- Pinyin
- Jīn
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 1377 of 2500
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
换
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to exchange, to change (clothes etc), to substitute, to switch, to convert (currency)
- Pinyin
- huàn
- Traditional
- 換
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 1175 of 2500