树欲静而风不止 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 樹欲靜而風不止 shùyùjìngérfēngbùzhǐ ㄕㄨˋ ㄩˋ ㄐㄧㄥˋ ㄦˊ ㄈㄥ ㄅㄨˋ ㄓˇ lit. the trees long for peace but the wind will never cease (idiom) fig. the world changes, whether you want it or not Character by character 树(shù)tree 欲(yù)desire 静(jìng)still 而(ér)and 风(fēng)wind 不(bù)no 止(zhǐ)stop A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0