一山不容二虎

lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom) / fig. this town ain't big enough for the two of us / (of two rivals) to be fiercely competitive

Characters and words in 一山不容二虎

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
surname Shan
mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.
(negative prefix) / not / no

= + : Bruno Bear (bu) is setting up a wind wheel (丆) with a voodoo staff (卜) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He also puts a "forbidden" sign (mnemonic symbol for 不) on it, to make clear that it may not (不) be stopped.
no; not so / (bound form) not; un-
must not / cannot / to not allow / cannot tolerate
surname Rong

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a food container.

= + : Rachel Rhinoceros prepares some popcorn in the kitchen of the Erechtheion. She is using a food container which she closes with a graduation cap.
to hold / to contain / to allow / to tolerate / appearance / look / countenance

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a food container.

= + : Rachel Rhinoceros prepares some popcorn in the kitchen of the Erechtheion. She is using a food container which she closes with a graduation cap.
two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid

= : Mnemonic symbol: a capacitor, because the two strokes remind me of the symbol in electrical drawings. Albert Einstein (Ø) is experimenting with a capacitor (二) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He finds that it's uncomfortable to discharge a capacitor using two flutes (一).
tiger / CL:隻|只[zhi1]

= + : Helga Horse (hu) is trying once more to get some nice stripes (虍). This time she is lying on the tiger's (虎) small table (几) to have him tattoo the stripes on her body in the space station (Ø3).

Words with 一山不容二虎

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