| 不管白猫黑猫，捉住老鼠就是好猫 |
bù guǎn bái māo hēi māo , zhuō zhù lǎo shǔ jiù shì hǎo māo |
it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 邓小平 in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity) |
| 不 |
bù |
no; not so / (bound form) not; un- |
| 不管 |
bù guǎn |
not to be concerned / regardless of / no matter |
| 管 |
guǎn |
variant of 管 |
| 管 |
Guǎn |
surname Guan |
| 管 |
guǎn |
to take care (of) / to control / to manage / to be in charge of / to look after / to run / to care about / tube / pipe / woodwind / classifier for tube-shaped objects / particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions / writing brush / (coll.) to / towards |
| 白 |
Bái |
surname Bai |
| 白 |
bái |
white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera |
| 猫 |
māo |
cat (CL:只) / (dialect) to hide oneself / (loanword) (coll.) modem |
| 猫 |
máo |
used in 猫腰 |
| 黑 |
Hēi |
abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龙江 |
| 黑 |
hēi |
black / dark / sinister / secret / shady / illegal / to hide (sth) away / to vilify / (loanword) to hack (computing) |
| 猫 |
māo |
cat (CL:只) / (dialect) to hide oneself / (loanword) (coll.) modem |
| 猫 |
máo |
used in 猫腰 |
| 捉 |
zhuō |
to clutch / to grab / to capture |
| 捉住 |
zhuō zhù |
to catch / to grapple with / to hold onto |
| 住 |
zhù |
to live / to dwell / to stay / to reside / to stop / (suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt) |
| 老 |
lǎo |
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough |
| 老鼠 |
lǎo shǔ |
rat; mouse (CL:只) |
| 鼠 |
shǔ |
(bound form) rat; mouse |
| 就 |
jiù |
(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then / (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after / (same as 就是) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly / only; as little as / as much as; as many as / to approach; to move towards / to undertake; to engage in / (often followed by 着) taking advantage of / (of food) to go with / with regard to; concerning / (pattern: 就 ... 也 ...) even if ... still ... / (pattern: 不 ... 就 ...) if not ... then must be ... |
| 就是 |
jiù shì |
exactly; precisely / only; simply; just / (used correlatively with 也) even; even if |
| 是 |
shì |
to be (followed by substantives only) / correct; right; true / (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well / (adverb for emphatic assertion) |
| 是 |
shì |
variant of 是 |
| 好 |
hǎo |
good / appropriate; proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close; on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello |
| 好 |
hào |
to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to |
| 猫 |
māo |
cat (CL:只) / (dialect) to hide oneself / (loanword) (coll.) modem |
| 猫 |
máo |
used in 猫腰 |