死了张屠夫，不吃混毛猪

Traditional form:

死了張屠夫，不吃混毛豬

Pinyin (reading):

sǐle Zhāngtúfū,bùchīhùnmáozhū

Definitions:

• lit. just because Zhang the butcher dies, doesn't mean we'll have to eat pork mixed with bristles (idiom)
• fig. nobody is indispensable

Characters:

• 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
• 了 - clear; to finish; particle of completed action
• 张 - to display; to expand, to open; to stretch; a sheet of paper
• 屠 - to butcher, to slaughter; massacre
• 夫 - man, husband; worker; those
• 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
• 吃 - to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
• 混 - muddy, confused; to mix, to blend; to mingle
• 毛 - hair, fur, feathers; coarse
• 猪 - pig, hog, wild boar

Traditional characters:

• 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
• 了 - clear; to finish; particle of completed action
• 張 - to display; to expand, to open; to stretch; a sheet of paper
• 屠 - to butcher, to slaughter; massacre
• 夫 - man, husband; worker; those
• 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
• 吃 - to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
• 混 - muddy, confused; to mix, to blend; to mingle
• 毛 - hair, fur, feathers; coarse
• 豬 - pig, hog, wild boar