Entry
窃qiè钩gōu者zhě诛zhū，,窃qiè国guó者zhě侯hóu

  1. steal a hook and they hang you, steal the whole country and they make you a prince (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3])

    trad. 竊鉤者誅，竊國者侯

Also written 竊鉤者誅，竊國者侯【qiè gōu zhě zhū , qiè guó zhě hóu】

Characters in this word

6
者
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(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ..., (after a noun) person involved in ..., -er, -ist, (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously), (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term), (old) (used at the end of a command), (old) this

Pinyin
zhě
Strokes
8
Frequency
890 of 2500
Words starting with 者Words ending in 者Anywhere in a word