各人自扫门前雪,莫管他家瓦上霜
Traditional form:
各人自掃門前雪,莫管他家瓦上霜
Pinyin (reading):
gèrénzìsǎoménqiánxuě,mòguǎntājiāwǎshàngshuāng
Definitions:
- sweep the snow from your own door step, don't worry about the frost on your neighbor's roof (idiom)
Characters:
- 各 - individual; each, every; all
- 人 - man, person; people
- 自 - self; private, personal; from
- 扫 - to clean, to sweep, to wipe away; to weed out; to wipe out
- 门 - gate, door, entrance, opening
- 前 - in front, forward; former, preceding
- 雪 - snow; wipe away shame, avenge
- 莫 - cannot; do not; is not; negative
- 管 - tube, pipe, duct; to manage, to control
- 他 - other, another; he, she, it
- 家 - house, home, residence; family
- 瓦 - tile; pottery, earthenware
- 上 - above, on top, superior; to go up; to attend; previous
- 霜 - frost; frozen, crystallized, candied
Traditional characters:
- 各 - individual; each, every; all
- 人 - man, person; people
- 自 - self; private, personal; from
- 掃 - to clean, to sweep, to wipe away; to weed out; to wipe out
- 門 - gate, door, entrance, opening
- 前 - in front, forward; former, preceding
- 雪 - snow; wipe away shame, avenge
- 莫 - cannot; do not; is not; negative
- 管 - tube, pipe, duct; to manage, to control
- 他 - other, another; he, she, it
- 家 - house, home, residence; family
- 瓦 - tile; pottery, earthenware
- 上 - above, on top, superior; to go up; to attend; previous
- 霜 - frost; frozen, crystallized, candied