人为财死，鸟为食亡

lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom) / fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich

person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

artificial / man-made / having human cause or origin / human attempt or effort

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)

because of / for / to

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

variant of 為|为[wei4]

variant of 為|为[wei2]

money / wealth / riches / property / valuables

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

variant of 屌[diao3] / penis

bird / CL:隻|只[zhi1],群[qun2] / "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196) / (dialect) to pay attention to / (intensifier) damned / goddamn

to eat / food / animal feed / eclipse

to feed (a person or animal)

to die / to lose / to be gone / to flee / deceased

old variant of 亡[wang2]