宁拆十座庙，不毁一桩婚

rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom)

to store / to stand / space between the door and the entrance screen

old variant of 寧|宁[ning4]

abbr. for Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区[Ning2 xia4 Hui2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 qu1] / abbr. for Nanjing 南京[Nan2 jing1] / surname Ning

peaceful / to pacify / to visit (one's parents etc)

would rather / to prefer / how (emphatic) / Taiwan pr. [ning2]

variant of 寧|宁[ning2]

to tear open / to tear down / to tear apart / to open

ten / 10

seat / base / stand / (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address, e.g. 师座|师座[shi1 zuo4] / CL:個|个[ge4] / classifier for buildings, mountains and similar immovable objects

temple / ancestral shrine / CL:座[zuo4] / temple fair / great imperial hall / imperial

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

to destroy / to damage / to ruin / to defame / to slander

variant of 毀|毁[hui3] / to destroy by fire / a blaze

variant of 毀|毁[hui3] / to defame / to slander

to destroy; to ruin / to defame; to slander

to destroy by fire

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

stump / stake / pile / classifier for items

to marry / marriage / wedding / to take a wife