反美是工作赴美是生活

Traditional form:

反美是工作赴美是生活

Pinyin (reading):

fǎn Měishìgōngzuòfù Měishìshēnghuó

Definitions:

• being anti-American is the job, but life is in America (jocular comment made about public figures who are brazenly xenophobic but whose family live abroad)

Characters:

• 反 - reverse, opposite; contrary, anti-
• 美 - beautiful, pretty; pleasing
• 是 - to be; indeed, right, yes; okay
• 工 - labor, work; laborer, worker
• 作 - to make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform
• 赴 - to attend, to go to, to be present
• 美 - beautiful, pretty; pleasing
• 是 - to be; indeed, right, yes; okay
• 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
• 活 - to exist, to live, to survive; living, working

Traditional characters:

• 反 - reverse, opposite; contrary, anti-
• 美 - beautiful, pretty; pleasing
• 是 - to be; indeed, right, yes; okay
• 工 - labor, work; laborer, worker
• 作 - to make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform
• 赴 - to attend, to go to, to be present
• 美 - beautiful, pretty; pleasing
• 是 - to be; indeed, right, yes; okay
• 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
• 活 - to exist, to live, to survive; living, working