| 太公钓鱼，愿者上钩 |
tài gōng diào yú , yuàn zhě shàng gōu |
Jiang Ziya is fishing, if you want take the hook (idiom, refers to early sage 姜子牙 fishing with no bait and the hook above the water); to put one's head in the noose |
| 太 |
tài |
highest / greatest / too (much) / very / extremely |
| 太公 |
tài gōng |
great-grandfather / (old) grandfather / father |
| 公 |
gōng |
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal) |
| 钓 |
diào |
to fish with a hook and line; to angle |
| 钓鱼 |
diào yú |
to fish (with line and hook); to angle / (fig.) to entrap / (Tw) to repeatedly nod one's head while dozing |
| 鱼 |
Yú |
surname Yu |
| 鱼 |
yú |
fish (CL:条,尾) / used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鲍鱼, alligators and crocodiles 鳄鱼 and octopi 章鱼) |
| 愿 |
yuàn |
honest and prudent / variant of 愿 |
| 愿 |
yuàn |
(bound form) wish; hope; desire / to be willing / to wish (that sth may happen); may ... / vow; pledge |
| 者 |
zhě |
(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 后 or 前 to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this |
| 上 |
shǎng |
used in 上声 |
| 上 |
shàng |
(bound form) up; upper; above; previous / first (of multiple parts) / to climb; to get onto; to go up / to attend (class or university) / (directional complement) up / (noun suffix) on; above |
| 上钩 |
shàng gōu |
to take the bait |
| 钩 |
gōu |
variant of 钩 |
| 钩 |
gōu |
to hook / to sew / to crochet / hook / check mark or tick / window catch |