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阎王好见，小鬼难当
Yán wáng hǎo jiàn , xiǎo guǐ nán dāng
What 阎王好见，小鬼难当 means
- lit. standing in front of the King of Hell is easy, but smaller devils are difficult to deal with (idiom)
The characters in 阎王好见，小鬼难当
- 阎yán(literary) the gate of a lane
- 王wángking or monarch; best or strongest of its type; grand
- 好hǎogood; appropriate; proper; all right!
- 见jiànto see; to meet; to appear (to be sth)
- 小xiǎosmall; tiny; few
- 鬼guǐdisembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc…
- 难nándifficult (to...); problem; difficulty
- 当dāng(onomatopoeia) dong; ding dong (bell)
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