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刀不磨要生銹,人不學要落後

a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study (idiom)

Characters and words in 刀不磨要生銹,人不學要落後

dāo = d + ao1
knife / blade / single-edged sword / cutlass / CL:把[ba3] / (slang) dollar (loanword) / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs
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= bu + Ø4
no; not so / (bound form) not; un-
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= m + o2
to rub / to grind / to polish / to sharpen / to wear down / to die out / to waste time / to pester / to insist
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= m + o4
grindstone / to grind / to turn round
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yāo = y + ao1
to demand / to request / to coerce
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yào = y + ao4
important / vital / to want / to ask for / will / going to (as future auxiliary) / may / must / (used in a comparison) must be / probably / if
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yāo = y + ao1
(bound form) to demand; to coerce
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yào = y + ao4
to want; to need; to ask for / will; shall; about to / need to; should / if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]) / (bound form) important
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shēng = sh + (e)ng1
to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student
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to rust / to grow rusty / to corrode / oxidization
xiù = xi + ou4
rén = r + (e)n2
person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
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xué = xu + e2
to learn / to study / to imitate / science / -ology
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= l + a4
to leave out / to be missing / to leave behind or forget to bring / to lag or fall behind
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lào = l + ao4
colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds
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luò = lu + o4
to fall or drop / (of the sun) to set / (of a tide) to go out / to lower / to decline or sink / to lag or fall behind / to fall onto / to rest with / to get or receive / to write down / whereabouts / settlement
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to fall behind / to lag (in technology etc) / backward / to retrogress
hòu = h + ou4
back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-
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