善财难舍 — Chinese idiom
善财难舍
shàn cái nán shě
Traditional: 善財難捨
Meaning
- to cherish wealth and find it hard to give up ; refusing to contribute to charity
- skinflint
- miserly
Character by character
- 善shàngood, virtuous, charitable, kind
- 财cáiriches, wealth, valuables
- 难nánhard, difficult, arduous; unable
- 舍shěhouse, dwelling; to reside, to dwell; to abandon,
Idioms sharing a character
- 乏善可陈 fá shàn kě chén
- 兼善天下 jiān shàn tiān xià
- 劝善惩恶 quàn shàn chéng è
- 善始善终 shàn shǐ shàn zhōng
- 善有善报 shàn yǒu shàn bào
- 善罢甘休 shàn bà gān xiū
- 善自为谋 shàn zì wéi móu
- 善自珍摄 shàn zì zhēn shè
- 善解人意 shàn jiě rén yì
- 多愁善感 duō chóu shàn gǎn
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