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不乾不淨，吃了沒病
简 不干不净，吃了没病 · 繁 不乾不淨，吃了沒病Mandarin · pinyin bù gān bù jìng , chī le méi bìng
Meanings
- a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb)
- a couple of germs won't do you any harm
Characters in this entry
- 不
- bù · no, not; un-; negative prefix
- 乾
- qián · gān · dry; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male); trigram ☰; hexagram ䷀
- 淨
- jìng · pure, clean, unspoiled
- 吃
- chī · eat; drink; suffer, endure, bear
- 了
- le · to finish; particle of completed action
- 沒
- méi · not, have not, none; to drown, sink
- 病
- bìng · illness, sickness, disease
- 干
- gàn · oppose, offend; invade; dried
- 净
- jìng · clean, pure; cleanse
- 没
- méi · not, have not, none; drown, sink
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