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死了张屠夫，不吃混毛猪

sǐ le Zhāng tú fū , bù chī hùn máo zhū

11-character word Traditional 死了張屠夫，不吃混毛豬

What 死了张屠夫，不吃混毛猪 means

1. lit. just because Zhang the butcher dies, doesn't mean we'll have to eat pork mixed with bristles (idiom)
2. fig. nobody is indispensable

The characters in 死了张屠夫，不吃混毛猪

• 死sǐto die; impassable; uncrossable
• 了le(completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)…
• 张zhāngto open up; to spread; sheet of paper
• 屠túto slaughter (animals for food); to massacre
• 夫fūhusband; man; manual worker
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
• 混hùnto mix; to mingle; muddled
• 毛máohair; feather; down
• 猪zhūhog; pig; swine