bù​rù​hǔ​xué​yān​dé​hǔ​zǐ

nothing ventured, nothing gained

  1. adverb
    not
    Negative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings
  2. verbparticle
    to enter
    to enter; to go into; to move from outside to inside
  3. tiger's den
    a tiger's lair; used to describe a highly dangerous or hazardous place
  4. yān
    non-Chinese
  5. how can one
    (literary) how can one possibly; how could it be that; used to express a rhetorical question in formal writing
  6. tiger cub
    the offspring of a tiger