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留得青山在，不怕没柴烧

liú de qīng shān zài , bù pà méi chái shāo

11-character word Traditional 留得青山在，不怕沒柴燒

What 留得青山在，不怕没柴烧 means

1. While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.

The characters in 留得青山在，不怕没柴烧

• 留liúto leave (a message etc); to retain; to stay
• 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…
• 青qīnggreen; blue; black
• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
• 在zàito exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at…
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 怕pàto be afraid; to fear; to dread
• 没méi(negative prefix for verbs) have not; not
• 柴cháifirewood; lean (of meat); thin (of a person)
• 烧shāoto burn; to set on fire; to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc); to braise