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瘦死的骆驼比马大

shòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dà

8-character word Traditional 瘦死的駱駝比馬大

What 瘦死的骆驼比马大 means

1. lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom)
2. fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people
3. a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people

The characters in 瘦死的骆驼比马大

• 瘦shòuthin; to lose weight; (of clothing) tight
• 死sǐto die; impassable; uncrossable
• 的deof; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)…
• 骆luòcamel; white horse with a black mane (archaic)
• 驼tuóhump or hunchbacked; camel
• 比bǐto compare; (followed by a noun and adjective) more adj. than noun; ratio
• 马mǎhorse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess
• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐