一夫当关，万夫莫开

Traditional form:

一夫當關，萬夫莫開

Pinyin (reading):

yīfū-dāngguān,wànfū-mòkāi

Definitions:

• (idiom) one man guarding the pass can prevent the passage of ten thousand

Characters:

• 一 - one; a, an; alone
• 夫 - man, husband; worker; those
• 当 - appropriate, timely; to act, to serve; the sound of bells
• 关 - frontier pass; to close, to shut; relation
• 万 - ten thousand; innumerable
• 夫 - man, husband; worker; those
• 莫 - cannot; do not; is not; negative
• 开 - to open; to start, to initiate, to begin

Traditional characters:

• 一 - one; a, an; alone
• 夫 - man, husband; worker; those
• 當 - appropriate, timely; to act, to serve; the sound of bells
• 關 - frontier pass; to close, to shut; relation
• 萬 - ten thousand; innumerable
• 夫 - man, husband; worker; those
• 莫 - cannot; do not; is not; negative
• 開 - to open; to start, to initiate, to begin