Entry
瘦shòu死sǐ的de骆luò驼tuo比bǐ马mǎ大dà

  1. lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom); fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people; a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people

    trad. 瘦死的駱駝比馬大

Also written 瘦死的駱駝比馬大【shòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dà】

Characters in this word

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的
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

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
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