gai4
guan1
lun4
ding4
  1. don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom)

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  • 盖 (蓋): surname Ge
  • 棺 (棺): coffin
  • 论 (論): abbr. for 論語|论语[Lun2 yu3], The Analects (of Confucius)
  • 定 (定): to fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc); to congeal; to coagulate; (literary) definitely

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