大难不死，必有后福

one is bound for good fortune after surviving a great disaster (proverb)

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

great catastrophe

difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good

disaster / distress / to scold

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

to just escape from calamity

to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned

certainly / must / will / necessarily

to have; there is / (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)

empress / queen / (archaic) monarch / ruler

back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-

surname Fu / abbr. for Fujian province 福建省[Fu2 jian4 sheng3]

good fortune / happiness / luck