佛要金装，人要衣装 / 佛要金裝，人要衣裝

fó​yào​jīn​zhuāng​rén​yào​yī​zhuāng

clothes make the man

the Buddha needs gold plating and humans need fine clothes; fine clothes make the man

佛 (literal) → 佛 · fó · Buddha 要 (literal) → 要 · yào · must 金装 (literal) → 金装/金裝 · jīn​zhuāng · gold-plated ， (non_chinese) 人 (literal) → 人 · rén · person 要 (literal) → 要 · yào · must 衣装 (literal) → 衣装/衣裝 · yī​zhuāng · clothing

Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

created sense May 20, 2026, 07:58 PM