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舍得一身剐，敢把皇帝拉下马

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

Entry
舍shě得de一yī身shēn剐guǎ，,敢gǎn把bǎ皇huáng帝dì拉lā下xià马mǎ

  1. one who does not fear the death of thousand cuts will dare to unhorse the emperor (proverb); to a fearless person, no fence is high enough

    trad. 捨得一身剮，敢把皇帝拉下馬

Also written 捨得一身剮，敢把皇帝拉下馬【shě de yī shēn guǎ , gǎn bǎ huáng dì lā xià mǎ】

Characters in this word

12
舍
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to give up; to abandon, to give alms

Pinyin
shě
Traditional
捨
Strokes
8
Frequency
21827 of 2500
Words starting with 舍Words ending in 舍Anywhere in a word
得
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to obtain, to get, to gain, to catch (a disease), proper, suitable, proud, contented, to allow, to permit, ready, finished

Pinyin
dé
Strokes
11
Frequency
62 of 2500
Words starting with 得Words ending in 得Anywhere in a word
一
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

one, single, a (article), as soon as, entire; whole; all; throughout, "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1), also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Pinyin
yī
Strokes
1
Frequency
158 of 2500
Words starting with 一Words ending in 一Anywhere in a word
身
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

body, life, oneself, personally, one's morality and conduct, the main part of a structure or body, pregnant, classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset, Kangxi radical 158

Pinyin
shēn
Strokes
7
Frequency
3095 of 2500
Words starting with 身Words ending in 身Anywhere in a word
剐
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

cut off the flesh as punishment

Pinyin
guǎ
Traditional
剮
Strokes
9
Frequency
43275 of 2500
Words starting with 剐Words ending in 剐Anywhere in a word
敢
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to dare, daring, (polite) may I venture

Pinyin
gǎn
Strokes
11
Frequency
1265 of 2500
Words starting with 敢Words ending in 敢Anywhere in a word
把
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to hold; to grasp, to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate, handlebar, classifier: handful, bundle, bunch, classifier for things with handles, (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb})

Pinyin
bǎ
Strokes
7
Frequency
34 of 2500
Words starting with 把Words ending in 把Anywhere in a word
皇
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

surname Huang

Pinyin
Huáng
Strokes
9
Frequency
22077 of 2500
Words starting with 皇Words ending in 皇Anywhere in a word
帝
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(bound form) emperor; sovereign; supreme deity

Pinyin
dì
Strokes
9
Frequency
4515 of 2500
Words starting with 帝Words ending in 帝Anywhere in a word
拉
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to pull, to play (a bowed instrument), to drag, to draw, to chat, (coll.) to empty one's bowels

Pinyin
lā
Strokes
8
Frequency
645 of 2500
Words starting with 拉Words ending in 拉Anywhere in a word
下
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

down, downwards, below, lower, later, next (week etc), second (of two parts), to decline, to go down, to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc), measure word to show the frequency of an action

Pinyin
xià
Strokes
3
Frequency
184 of 2500
Words starting with 下Words ending in 下Anywhere in a word
马
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

surname Ma, abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]

Pinyin
Mǎ
Traditional
馬
Strokes
3
Frequency
1030 of 2500
Words starting with 马Words ending in 马Anywhere in a word