| 常在河边走，哪有不湿鞋 |
cháng zài hé biān zǒu , nǎ yǒu bù shī xié |
a person who regularly walks by the river cannot avoid getting their shoes wet (proverb) / (fig.) it comes with the territory (e.g. a person with the power to grant favors will inevitably succumb to temptation and take a bribe) |
| 常 |
Cháng |
surname Chang |
| 常 |
cháng |
always / ever / often / frequently / common / general / constant |
| 在 |
zài |
to exist; to be alive / (of sb or sth) to be (located) at / (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress) |
| 河 |
hé |
river (CL:条,道) / (bound form) the Yellow River / (bound form) the Milky Way / (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉 |
| 河边 |
hé biān |
river bank |
| 边 |
biān |
side / edge / margin / border / boundary / CL:个 / simultaneously |
| 边 |
bian |
suffix of a noun of locality |
| 走 |
zǒu |
to walk / to go / to run / to move (of vehicle) / to visit / to leave / to go away / to die (euph.) / from / through / away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走) / to change (shape, form, meaning) |
| 哪 |
nǎ |
how / which |
| 哪 |
na |
(emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊 after a word ending in "n") |
| 哪 |
né |
used in 哪吒 / Taiwan pr. [nuo2] |
| 哪 |
něi |
which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier) |
| 有 |
yǒu |
to have; there is / (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意 intentional) |
| 不 |
bù |
no; not so / (bound form) not; un- |
| 湿 |
shī |
variant of 湿 |
| 湿 |
shī |
moist / wet |
| 鞋 |
xié |
shoe / CL:双,只 |
| 鞋 |
xié |
variant of 鞋 |