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提防律師 is a kind of Chinese joke about lawyers.
The first two characters mean “guard yourself against (an attack)” or “beware.”
The last two characters can be translated as lawyer, attorney, or solicitor.
Separately, those characters mean law/regulation/control and master/expert/teacher. Here, you can see the attorney meaning is pretty clear in the individual characters.
Please note this is Chinese only (it won't make sense in Japanese, and the last two characters are sometimes translated together as “Buddhist Priest” in Japanese).
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your beware search...
| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
防 see styles |
fáng fang2 fang fusegi ふせぎ |
More info & calligraphy: Defense / Defend(surname) Fusegi Ward of, protect, beware; to counter. |
謹防 谨防 see styles |
jǐn fáng jin3 fang2 chin fang |
to guard against; to beware of |
合流注意 see styles |
gouryuuchuui / goryuchui ごうりゅうちゅうい |
(expression) (in road surface markings, etc.) (beware of) merging traffic |
猛犬注意 see styles |
moukenchuui / mokenchui もうけんちゅうい |
(expression) (on a sign) Beware of dog |
追突注意 see styles |
tsuitotsuchuui / tsuitotsuchui ついとつちゅうい |
(expression) (in road surface markings, signage, etc.) keep the distance; beware of the car in front of you |
殺君馬者道旁兒 杀君马者道旁儿 see styles |
shā jun mǎ zhě dào páng ér sha1 jun1 ma3 zhe3 dao4 pang2 er2 sha chün ma che tao p`ang erh sha chün ma che tao pang erh |
lit. bystanders killed the king's horse (idiom) (based on an ancient story in which people along the road cheered a horseman on as he galloped past, until the horse died of exhaustion); fig. beware of becoming complacent when everyone is cheering you on |
黃鼠狼給雞拜年 黄鼠狼给鸡拜年 see styles |
huáng shǔ láng gěi jī bài nián huang2 shu3 lang2 gei3 ji1 bai4 nian2 huang shu lang kei chi pai nien |
Beware of suspicious folk bearing gifts, they are sure to be ill-intentioned. (idiom) |
來者不善,善者不來 来者不善,善者不来 |
lái zhě bù shàn , shàn zhě bù lái lai2 zhe3 bu4 shan4 , shan4 zhe3 bu4 lai2 lai che pu shan , shan che pu lai |
He who comes is surely ill-intentioned, no-one well-meaning will come (idiom).; Be careful not to trust foreigners.; Beware of Greeks bearing gifts! |
Variations: |
kumashutsubotsuchuui / kumashutsubotsuchui くましゅつぼつちゅうい |
(expression) (on trail signage, etc.) Beware of Bears; watch out for bears |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Beware of the Lawyers | 提防律師 提防律师 | xiǎo xīn lǜ shī xiao3 xin1 lv4 shi1 xiao xin lv shi xiaoxinlvshi | hsiao hsin lü shih hsiaohsinlüshih |
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| Iaijutsu | 居合術 | i ai jutsu / iaijutsu | ||
| In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. | ||||
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