打蛇不死，后患无穷
Traditional form:
打蛇不死，後患無窮
Pinyin (reading):
dǎshébùsǐ,hòuhuànwúqióng
Definitions:
- (idiom) if you beat the snake without killing it, endless evils will ensue
Characters:
- 打 - to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
- 蛇 - snake
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 后 - after; behind, rear; descendants
- 患 - suffering; misfortune; trouble; to suffer
- 无 - no, not; lacking, -less
- 穷 - poor, destitute; to exhaust
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