救人一命胜造七级浮屠
jiù​rén​yī​mìng​shèng​zào​qī​jí​fú​tú

saving a life is better than building a pagoda

  • created sense approved 救人一命胜造七级浮屠/救人一命勝造七級浮屠 · jiù​rén​yī​mìng​shèng​zào​qī​jí​fú​tú · saving a life is better than building a pagoda — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    救人一命胜造七级浮屠 / 救人一命勝造七級浮屠

    jiù​rén​yī​mìng​shèng​zào​qī​jí​fú​tú

    saving a life is better than building a pagoda

    saving a human life is more meritorious than building a seven-story pagoda; used to emphasize the supreme value of saving someone's life

    救人 (literal) → 救人 · jiù​rén · to save someone 一命 (literal) → 一命 · yī​mìng · a life 胜 (literal) → 胜/勝 · shèng · to surpass 造 (literal) → 造 · zào · to build 七级浮屠 (literal) → 七级浮屠/七級浮屠 · qī​jí​fú​tú · seven-story pagoda

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

    created sense