树挪死，人挪活
Traditional form:
樹挪死，人挪活
Pinyin (reading):
shùnuósǐ,rénnuóhuó
Definitions:
- lit. if moved to a new location, a tree will die, but a person will live (idiom)
- fig. human beings, unlike trees, thrive on change
Characters:
- 树 - tree; to plant; to set up, to establish
- 挪 - to shift, to move
- 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 人 - man, person; people
- 挪 - to shift, to move
- 活 - to exist, to live, to survive; living, working
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