饭后一支烟，赛过活神仙
Traditional form:
飯後一支煙，賽過活神仙
Pinyin (reading):
fànhòuyīzhīyān,sàiguòhuóshénxiān
Definitions:
- have a smoke after each meal and you will surpass the immortals (proverb)
Characters:
- 饭 - meal, food; cooked rice
- 后 - after; behind, rear; descendants
- 一 - one; a, an; alone
- 支 - to support, to sustain; to withdraw, to pay; a branch (of a bank)
- 烟 - smoke, soot; opium; tobacco, cigarettes
- 赛 - to compete, to contend; contest, race
- 过 - pass; to go across, to pass through
- 活 - to exist, to live, to survive; living, working
- 神 - god, spirit; divine, mysterious, supernatural
- 仙 - god; fairy; immortal, transcendent
Traditional characters:
- 飯 - meal, food; cooked rice
- 後 - after; behind, rear; descendants
- 一 - one; a, an; alone
- 支 - to support, to sustain; to withdraw, to pay; a branch (of a bank)
- 煙 - smoke, soot; opium; tobacco, cigarettes
- 賽 - to compete, to contend; contest, race
- 過 - pass; to go across, to pass through
- 活 - to exist, to live, to survive; living, working
- 神 - god, spirit; divine, mysterious, supernatural
- 仙 - god; fairy; immortal, transcendent