瘦死的骆驼比马大
Traditional form:
瘦死的駱駝比馬大
Pinyin (reading):
shòusǐdeluòtuobǐmǎdà
Definitions:
- lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom)
- fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people
- a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people
Characters:
- 瘦 - thin, lean, emaciated; meager
- 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 的 - aim, goal; of; possessive particle; -self suffix
- 骆 - camel
- 驼 - camel; humpback; to carry on one's back
- 比 - to compare, liken; comparison; than
- 马 - horse; surname
- 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
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