鲜花插在牛粪上

Traditional form:

鮮花插在牛糞上

Pinyin (reading):

xiānhuāchāzàiniúfènshàng

Definitions:

• lit. a bunch of flowers poked into a pile of manure
• fig. a terrible shame (as when a lovely woman marries an odious man)

Characters:

• 鲜 - fresh; delicious; attractive
• 花 - flower, blossom; to spend (time or money)
• 插 - to insert, to stick in; to pierce; to plant
• 在 - at, in, on; to exist; used to indicate the present progressive tense
• 牛 - ox, cow, bull
• 粪 - manure, dung; shit, excrement
• 上 - above, on top, superior; to go up; to attend; previous

Traditional characters:

• 鮮 - fresh; delicious; attractive
• 花 - flower, blossom; to spend (time or money)
• 插 - to insert, to stick in; to pierce; to plant
• 在 - at, in, on; to exist; used to indicate the present progressive tense
• 牛 - ox, cow, bull
• 糞 - manure, dung; shit, excrement
• 上 - above, on top, superior; to go up; to attend; previous