救人一命胜造七级浮屠

Traditional form:

救人一命勝造七級浮屠

Pinyin (reading):

jiùrényīmìngshèngzàoqījífútú

Definitions:

• saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom)

Characters:

• 救 - aid, help; to rescue, to save
• 人 - man, person; people
• 一 - one; a, an; alone
• 命 - life; destiny, fate, luck; an order, instruction
• 胜 - victory; to excel, to truimph
• 造 - to build, to construct, to invent, to manufacture
• 七 - seven
• 级 - level, rank; class, grade
• 浮 - to drift, to float; mobile, temporary, unstable; reckless
• 屠 - to butcher, to slaughter; massacre

Traditional characters:

• 救 - aid, help; to rescue, to save
• 人 - man, person; people
• 一 - one; a, an; alone
• 命 - life; destiny, fate, luck; an order, instruction
• 勝 - victory; to excel, to truimph
• 造 - to build, to construct, to invent, to manufacture
• 七 - seven
• 級 - level, rank; class, grade
• 浮 - to drift, to float; mobile, temporary, unstable; reckless
• 屠 - to butcher, to slaughter; massacre