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好汉不吃眼前亏

hǎo hàn bù chī yǎn qián kuī

7-character word Traditional 好漢不吃眼前虧

What 好汉不吃眼前亏 means

1. a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom)

The characters in 好汉不吃眼前亏

• 好hǎogood; appropriate; proper; all right!
• 汉hànman
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
• 眼yǎneye; (often used with 一; small hole
• 前qiánfront; forward; ahead
• 亏kuīto lose (money); to have a deficit; to be deficient; to treat unfairly