created sense approved 解铃还需系铃人/解鈴還需繫鈴人 · jiělíngháixūxìlíngrén · whoever started the trouble should end it — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
解铃还需系铃人 / 解鈴還需繫鈴人
jiělíngháixūxìlíngrén
whoever started the trouble should end it
literally "whoever hung the bell on the tiger's neck must be the one to untie it"; used as a proverb to mean that the person who caused a problem is the one responsible for solving it
解 (literal) → 解 · jiě · to untie 铃 (literal) → 铃/鈴 · líng · bell 还 (literal) → 还/還 · hái · still 需 (literal) → 需 · xū · to need 系铃人 (literal) → 系铃人/繫鈴人 · xìlíngrén · the one who tied the bell
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition