lit. standing in front of the King of Hell is easy, but smaller devils are difficult to deal with (idiom)
trad. 閻王好見，小鬼難當
Also written 閻王好見，小鬼難當【Yán wáng hǎo jiàn , xiǎo guǐ nán dāng】
Characters in this word
8阎
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surname Yan (sometimes written 閆|闫[Yan2] in recent years)
- Pinyin
- Yán
- Traditional
- 閻
- Strokes
- 11
王
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surname Wang
- Pinyin
- Wáng
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 2561 of 2500
好
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good, appropriate; proper, all right!, (before a verb) easy to, (before a verb) good to, (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so, (verb complement indicating completion), (of two people) close; on intimate terms, (after a form of address) hello
- Pinyin
- hǎo
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 11 of 2500
见
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to see, to meet, to appear (to be sth), to interview, opinion, view
- Pinyin
- jiàn
- Traditional
- 見
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 278 of 2500
小
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small, tiny, few, young
- Pinyin
- xiǎo
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 245 of 2500
鬼
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disembodied spirit; ghost; devil, (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc, sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 詭|诡[gui3]), one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy
- Pinyin
- guǐ
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 790 of 2500
难
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difficult (to...), problem, difficulty, difficult, not good
- Pinyin
- nán
- Traditional
- 難
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 1327 of 2500
当
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(onom.) dong, ding dong (bell)
- Pinyin
- dāng
- Traditional
- 噹
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 145 of 2500