lit. either the fish dies or the net splits; a life and death struggle (idiom)
trad. 魚死網破
Also written 魚死網破【yú sǐ wǎng pò】
Characters in this word
4鱼
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surname Yu
- Pinyin
- Yú
- Traditional
- 魚
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 1545 of 2500
死
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to die, impassable, uncrossable, inflexible, rigid, extremely, damned
- Pinyin
- sǐ
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 113 of 2500
网
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net; web, network, to net; to catch with a net
- Pinyin
- wǎng
- Traditional
- 網
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 8550 of 2500
破
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broken, damaged, worn out, lousy, rotten, to break, split or cleave, to get rid of, to destroy, to break with, to defeat, to capture (a city etc), to expose the truth of
- Pinyin
- pò
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 2217 of 2500