| 树倒猢狲散 |
shù dǎo hú sūn sàn |
When the tree topples the monkeys scatter. (idiom); fig. an opportunist abandons an unfavorable cause / Rats leave a sinking ship. |
| 树 |
shù |
tree / CL:棵 / to cultivate / to set up |
| 倒 |
dǎo |
to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally / to fail; to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit |
| 倒 |
dào |
to invert; to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out; to dump / inverted; upside down; reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect; but; yet |
| 猢 |
hú |
used in 猢狲 |
| 猢狲 |
hú sūn |
macaque |
| 狲 |
sūn |
used in 猢狲 / used in 兔狲 |
| 散 |
sàn |
variant of 散 |
| 散 |
sǎn |
scattered / loose / to come loose / to fall apart / leisurely / powdered medicine |
| 散 |
sàn |
to scatter / to break up (a meeting etc) / to disperse / to disseminate / to dispel / (coll.) to sack |