士为知己者死,女为悦己者容

a true gentleman will sacrifice his life for a friend who understands him, as a woman makes herself beautiful for her sweetheart

Characters and words in 士为知己者死,女为悦己者容

shì = sh + Ø4
member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker
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wéi = w + ei2
as (in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do / by (in the passive voice)
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wèi = w + ei4
wéi = w + ei2
variant of 為|为[wei2] / as (i.e. in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do
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wèi = w + ei4
wéi = w + ei2
zhī = zh + Ø1
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to know oneself / to be intimate or close / intimate friend
= ji + Ø3
self / oneself / sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / sixth in order / letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / hexa
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zhě = zh + e3
(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this
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= s + Ø3
to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned
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female / woman / daughter
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= ru + Ø3
archaic variant of 汝[ru3]
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róng = ru + (e)ng2
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róng = ru + (e)ng2
to hold / to contain / to allow / to tolerate / appearance / look / countenance
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