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吃別人嚼過的饃不香
简 吃别人嚼过的馍不香 · 繁 吃別人嚼過的饃不香Mandarin · pinyin chī bié rén jiáo guò de mó bù xiāng
Meanings
- lit. bread previously chewed by someone has no flavor (idiom)
- fig. there's no joy in discovering something if someone else got there first
Characters in this entry
- 吃
- chī · eat; drink; suffer, endure, bear
- 別
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- 人
- rén · man; people; mankind; someone else
- 嚼
- jué · prattle, be glib
- 過
- guò · pass, pass through, go across
- 的
- de · possessive, adjectival suffix
- 饃
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- 不
- bù · no, not; un-; negative prefix
- 香
- xiāng · fragrant, sweet-smelling; incense; Kangxi radical 186
- 别
- bié · separate, other; do not
- 过
- guò · pass, pass through, go across
- 馍
- mó · bread
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Mandarin tones
1–2–2–2–4–5–2–4–1 · chi1 bie2 ren2 jiao2 guo4 de5 mo2 bu4 xiang1
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