don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom)
trad. 蓋棺論定
Also written 蓋棺論定【gài guān lùn dìng】
Characters in this word
4盖
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surname Ge
- Pinyin
- Gě
- Traditional
- 蓋
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 2903 of 2500
棺
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coffin
- Pinyin
- guān
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 47444 of 2500
论
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abbr. for 論語|论语[Lun2 yu3], The Analects (of Confucius)
- Pinyin
- Lún
- Traditional
- 論
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 16222 of 2500
定
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to fix; to set; to make definite, to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc), to congeal; to coagulate, (literary) definitely
- Pinyin
- dìng
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 2734 of 2500