nìng​wéi​jī​shī​bù​wéi​niú​cóng

better to be a big fish in a small pond

  1. would rather
    would rather; to prefer; would sooner
  2. wéi verbpreposition
    to be
    to be; to become; to act as; to serve as; to take as
  3. chicken
    chicken; fowl; bird of the Galliformes order typically raised for its meat or eggs
  4. corpse
    (bound form) dead body or corpse of a person or animal; often appears as 尸体 shī​tǐ or 尸首 shī​shou
  5. non-Chinese
  6. 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
  7. wéi verbpreposition
    to be
    to be; to become; to act as; to serve as; to take as
  8. ox
    ox; cow; bull; cattle; any of various bovine animals
  9. subordinate
    (bound form) Secondary; accessory; auxiliary; refers to a person attending to a superior, such as a follower or retainer.