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小洞不堵,大洞吃苦

a small hole not plugged will give you grief when it gets bigger (idiom) / a stitch in time saves nine

Characters and words in 小洞不堵,大洞吃苦

xiǎo = xi + ao3
small / tiny / few / young
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dòng = du + (e)ng4
cave / hole / zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers) / CL:個|个[ge4]
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= bu + Ø4
no; not so / (bound form) not; un-
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= du + Ø3
to block up (a road, pipe etc) / to stop up (a hole) / (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress / wall (literary) / (classifier for walls)
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dài = d + ai4
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= d + a4
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
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chī = ch + Ø1
to eat / to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate / to destroy / to absorb / to suffer / to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [ji2])
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chī = ch + Ø1
to bear hardships
= ku + Ø3
bitter / hardship / pain / to suffer / to bring suffering to / painstakingly
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Words with 小洞不堵,大洞吃苦

小洞不堵,大洞吃苦 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 小洞不堵,大洞吃苦

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