解铃还须系铃人
Traditional form:
解鈴還須繫鈴人
Pinyin (reading):
jiělíngháixūxìlíngrén
Definitions:
- lit. whoever hung the bell on the tiger's neck must untie it (idiom)
- fig. whoever started the trouble should end it
Characters:
- 解 - to explain; to loosen; to unfasten, to untie
- 铃 - small bell
- 还 - also, besides; still, yet; to return
- 须 - beard; must; necessary
- 系 - system; line, link, connection
- 铃 - small bell
- 人 - man, person; people
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