人心不足蛇吞象
Traditional form:
人心不足蛇吞象
Pinyin (reading):
rénxīnbùzúshétūnxiàng
Definitions:
- a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom)
Characters:
- 人 - man, person; people
- 心 - heart; mind; soul
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 足 - foot; to attain, to satisfy; enough
- 蛇 - snake
- 吞 - to absorb, to annex; to engulf; to swallow
- 象 - elephant; ivory; figure, image
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