没知识的无事干,没事干的无饭吃。

Those without knowledge can do nothing, and those who can do nothing can eat nothing.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 méi (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not
=1
  1. drowned
  2. to end
  3. to die
  4. to inundate
=2 知识 zhīshi
  1. knowledge
  2. intellectual

classifier:

=2 知识 zhīshí
  1. (literary) acquaintance; friend
  2. (literary) to know; to be familiar with
  3. acquaintance; friend
  4. to know; to be familiar with
=3 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=3 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=3 really and truly
=3 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
4 无事 shì
  1. (literary, vernacular, dialectal) to have no further business; to have nothing further to discuss
  2. to have no further business; to have nothing further to discuss
=5 gān old variant of gān
=5 Gān surname Gan
=5 gān
  1. dry
  2. dried food
  3. empty; hollow
  4. taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster
  5. futile; in vain
  6. (dialect) rude; blunt
  7. (dialect) to cold-shoulder
=5 gān variant of gān
=5 Gān surname Gan
=5 gān
  1. (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with
  2. one of the ten heavenly stems 天干 tiāngān
  3. (archaic) shield
=5 gàn
  1. tree trunk
  2. main part of sth
  3. to manage
  4. to work
  5. to do
  6. capable
  7. cadre
  8. to kill (slang)
  9. to fuck (vulgar)
  10. (coll.) pissed off
  11. annoyed
=5 gàn
  1. (~, ~) Gan River (a river in Jiangxi, China)
  2. Alternative name for 江西 (Jiāngxī, “Jiangxi, a province of China.”).
  3. Gan River (a river in Jiangxi, China)
  4. Gan; Gan Chinese
6 没事 méishì
  1. it's not important
  2. it's nothing
  3. never mind
  4. to have nothing to do
  5. to be free
  6. to be all right (out of danger or trouble)
=7 gān old variant of gān
=7 Gān surname Gan
=7 gān
  1. dry
  2. dried food
  3. empty; hollow
  4. taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster
  5. futile; in vain
  6. (dialect) rude; blunt
  7. (dialect) to cold-shoulder
=7 gān variant of gān
=7 Gān surname Gan
=7 gān
  1. (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with
  2. one of the ten heavenly stems 天干 tiāngān
  3. (archaic) shield
=7 gàn
  1. tree trunk
  2. main part of sth
  3. to manage
  4. to work
  5. to do
  6. capable
  7. cadre
  8. to kill (slang)
  9. to fuck (vulgar)
  10. (coll.) pissed off
  11. annoyed
=7 gàn
  1. (~, ~) Gan River (a river in Jiangxi, China)
  2. Alternative name for 江西 (Jiāngxī, “Jiangxi, a province of China.”).
  3. Gan River (a river in Jiangxi, China)
  4. Gan; Gan Chinese
=8 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=8 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=8 really and truly
=8 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=9 used in 南无
=9
  1. not to have
  2. no
  3. none
  4. not
  5. to lack
  6. un-
  7. -less
10 fàn
  1. cooked rice
  2. meal
  3. (loanword) fan
  4. devotee

classifiers: ,

=11 chī
  1. to eat; to consume
  2. to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
  3. to eradicate; to destroy
  4. to absorb
  5. to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
=11 chī variant of chī