Chinese Idioms - Chengyu

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    If one man holds the pass, ten thousand cannot pass; One man can hold the pass against ten thousand enemies

    yī
    一
    fū
    夫
    dāng
    当
    guān
    关
    ，
    wàn
    万
    fū
    夫
    mò
    莫
    kāi
    开
    一夫当关，万夫莫开
    yī fū dāng guān , wàn fū mò kāi

    Word by word translation of this Chinese idiom

    一
    yī
    one / 1 / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire / whole / all / throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
    夫
    fū
    husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)
    fú
    he, she, they / (classical) this, that / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
    当
    dāng
    to be / to act as / manage / withstand / when / during / ought / should / match equally / equal / same / obstruct / just at (a time or place) / on the spot / right / just at / ding dong (bell) / (onom.) dong
    dàng
    at or in the very same... / suitable / adequate / fitting / proper / to replace / to regard as / to think / to pawn / (coll.) to fail (a student)
    关
    guān
    mountain pass / to close / to shut / to turn off / to concern / to involve / surname Guan
    万
    mò
    see 万俟[Mò qí]
    wàn
    ten thousand / a great number / surname Wan
    夫
    fū
    husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)
    fú
    he, she, they / (classical) this, that / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
    莫
    mò
    do not / there is none who / surname Mo
    开
    kāi
    to open / to start / to turn on / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / to operate (vehicle) / abbr. for 開爾文|开尔文 degrees Kelvin
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