宁可自食其力,不可坐吃山空 寧可自食其力,不可坐吃山空 寧可自食其力,不可坐吃山空

better to live by your own labour than to sit and eat until the mountain is empty

Saying俗语俗語

Proverb谚语諺語 · Widely known

Meaning
Work for your living, because idle consumption exhausts even a huge fortune. Similar to 'Idleness consumes a fortune'.
Simplified
宁可自食其力,不可坐吃山空
Traditional (Taiwan)
寧可自食其力,不可坐吃山空
Pinyin
nìngkě zìshíqílì, bùkě zuòchīshānkōng
Bopomofo
ㄋㄧㄥˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄗˋ ㄕˊ ㄑㄧˊ ㄌㄧˋ,ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄔ ㄕㄢ ㄎㄨㄥ

Written with HSK 7-9 vocabulary, at CEFR level C1.

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