拿得起放得下 Save Sign in to save words nádeqǐfàngdexià ㄋㄚˊ ˙ㄉㄜ ㄑㄧˇ ㄈㄤˋ ˙ㄉㄜ ㄒㄧㄚˋ lit. can pick it up or put it down (idiom) fig. to take what comes to meet gains or losses with equanimity Character by character 拿(ná)hold 得(de)links a verb to how it is done 起(qǐ)rise 放(fàng)put 得(de)links a verb to how it is done 下(xià)down A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0