甲之蜜糖，乙之砒霜

Traditional form:

甲之蜜糖，乙之砒霜

Pinyin (reading):

jiǎzhīmìtáng,yǐzhīpīshuāng

Definitions:

• one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)

Characters:

• 甲 - armor, shell; fingernails; 1st heavenly stem
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 蜜 - honey, nectar; sweet
• 糖 - candy, sugar, sweets
• 乙 - second; 2nd heavenly stem
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 砒 - arsenic
• 霜 - frost; frozen, crystallized, candied

Traditional characters:

• 甲 - armor, shell; fingernails; 1st heavenly stem
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 蜜 - honey, nectar; sweet
• 糖 - candy, sugar, sweets
• 乙 - second; 2nd heavenly stem
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 砒 - arsenic
• 霜 - frost; frozen, crystallized, candied