hǎo hàn bù chī yǎn qián kuī
a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom)
好
hǎo
good
汉
hàn
the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
不
bù
no; not so
吃
chī
variant of 吃[chi1]
眼
yǎn
eye (CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1])
前
qián
front
亏
kuī
to lose (money); to have a deficit
