需要是发明之母

1. • Necessity is the mother of invention (European proverb).

Character by character

• 需(xū)require
• 要(yào)want
• 是(shì)be
• 发(fā)send out
• 明(míng)Ming Dynasty
• 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de)
• 母(mǔ)mother