Jump to content

孔夫子搬家——淨是書

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Chinese

[edit]
Confucius
to move house; to move to a new home; to move
to move house; to move to a new home; to move; to relocate
 
clean; completely; only be; yes; this book; letter
trad. (孔夫子搬家——淨是書) 孔夫子 搬家 ——
simp. (孔夫子搬家——净是书) 孔夫子 搬家 ——
Literally: “Confucius moves to a new home - everything is just books”.

Etymology

[edit]

 / (jìng shì shū) is a pun on  / (jìn shì shū, to have always lost).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Idiom

[edit]

孔夫子搬家——淨是書

  1. to have always lost and never won a single time