路见不平，拔刀相助
Traditional form:
路見不平，拔刀相助
Pinyin (reading):
lùjiànbùpíng,bádāoxiāngzhù
Definitions:
- lit. to intervene when one sees an injustice (idiom)
- fig. to rush to the rescue
- to play the white knight
Characters:
- 路 - road, path, street; journey
- 见 - to see, to observe, to meet, to appear
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 平 - flat, level, even; peaceful
- 拔 - to uproot, to pull out; to select, to promote
- 刀 - knife; old coin; measure
- 相 - mutual, reciprocal; equal; each other
- 助 - to help, to aid, to assist
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