閻王好見,小鬼難當 yán wáng hǎo jiàn , xiǎo guǐ nán dāng

boss easy, underlings hard to deal with

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. lit. standing in front of the King of Hell is easy, but smaller devils are difficult to deal with (idiom)

Characters

Character Meaning
surname Yan; gate of village; Yama
surname Wang; king or monarch
good; well; very
to see; to meet; to appear (to be sth)
small; young; tiny
ghost; demon
difficult; difficult (to...); difficulty
to be; to act as; should