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身体是革命的本钱

shēn tǐ shì gé mìng de běn qián

8-character word Traditional 身體是革命的本錢

What 身体是革命的本钱 means

1. lit. the body is the revolution's capital
2. fig. good health is a prerequisite for work (Mao Zedong's saying)

The characters in 身体是革命的本钱

• 身shēnbody; life; oneself
• 体tǐbody; form; style
• 是shìto be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true…
• 革géanimal hide; leather; to reform
• 命mìnglife; fate; order or command
• 的deof; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)…
• 本běn(bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this
• 钱qiáncoin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 两