大丈夫能屈能伸
dà zhàng fu néng qū néng shēn
Pinyin
Definition
大丈夫能屈能伸
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- A leader can submit or can stand tall as required.
- ready to give and take
- flexible
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 might (happen)
- 2 possible
- 3 probable
- 4 possibility
- 5 probability
- 6 maybe
- 7 perhaps
- 8 classifier: 个 gè
- 1 big
- 2 huge
- 3 large
- 4 major
- 5 great
- 6 wide
- 7 deep
- 8 older (than)
- 9 oldest
- 10 eldest
- 11 greatly
- 12 very much
- 13 (dialect) father
- 14 father's elder or younger brother
- 1 everyone
- 2 influential family
- 3 great expert
- 1 liar's dice (dice game)
- 1 surname Neng
Idioms (20)
一夫当关,万夫莫开
- 1 one man can hold the pass against ten thousand enemies (idiom)
一落千丈
- 1 lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)
- 2 fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline
- 3 to take a dive
丈二和尚,摸不着头脑
- 1 lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom)
- 2 fig. at a total loss
不以规矩,不能成方圆
- 1 without rules, nothing can be done (idiom, from Mencius); one must follow some rules
不识大体
- 1 to fail to see the larger issue (idiom)
- 2 to fail to grasp the big picture