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| | brilliant; superior; wise | HSK 7-9 |
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| | wise move / masterstroke / bright ideas | |
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| | wise / a sage | |
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| | wise opinion / brilliant idea (honorific) | |
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| | bright / opposite: dark 暗 / (of meaning) clear / to understand / next / public or open / wise / generic term for a sacrifice to the gods | |
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| | (literary) wise; wisdom | |
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| | wise saying; words of wisdom | |
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| | helpful friend / wise companion | |
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| | sage / wise man / clever and knowledgeable person | |
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| | a sage / wise and holy man / virtuous ruler / Buddhist lama / wine | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes. | |
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| | a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom) | |
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| | sensible / wise / judicious / sagacious | HSK 7-9 |
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| | outstanding talent / wise and able person / illustrious individual | |
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| | gangster; hoodlum / bachelor; single man / (dialect) wise person; astute person | |
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| | wise policy / best policy | |
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| | to have attained the Way / (of a government or a ruler) enlightened / wise and just | |
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| | wise and resolute | |
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| | sophisticated / worldly-wise | HSK 7-9 |
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| | a wise man looks after his own hide (idiom) / to put one's own safety before matters of principle | |
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| | wise man | |
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| | to not be wiser despite being older / (humble) to be older than (you) by | |
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| | lit. a wise person reflecting a thousand times can still make a mistake (idiom); fig. nobody is infallible | |
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| | wise / brilliant | |
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| | wise after the event (idiom); with hindsight, one should have predicted it | |
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| | The benevolent sees benevolence, the wise sees wisdom. / Different views are admissible. (idiom) | |
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| | feng shui master / geomancer / stock figure in folk tales, as a wise adviser or a charlatan | |
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| | wise and farsighted | |
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| | those who understand others are intelligent, but those who know themselves are truly wise (idiom, from Laozi's 道德經｜道德经) | |
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| | penny wise and pound foolish (idiom) | |
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| | to give sb a word of advice / advice; counsel; a wise word | |
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| | a great hero may appear timid, the wise may appear stupid (idiom); the general public may not recognize great talent | |
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| | lit. to hear one and know ten (idiom); fig. explain one thing and (he) understands everything / a word to the wise | |
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| | ginger gets spicier as it gets older (idiom) / the older, the wiser | |
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| | wise and virtuous woman / lady | |
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| | old and wise / experienced and knowledgeable | |
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| | (idiom) a wise person adapts to changing circumstances | |
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| | experienced / sophisticated / worldly-wise | |
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| | A still tongue makes a wise head. (idiom) | |
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| | A Mirror for the Wise Ruler (or Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government), a vast chronological general history, written by 司馬光｜司马光 Sima Guang (1019-1089) and collaborators during the Northern Song in 1084, covering the period 403 BC-959 AD, 294 scrolls | |
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| | the Magi / the Three Wise Kings from the East in the biblical nativity story | |
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| | to respect the wise and venerate the worthy (idiom); to honor the great and the good | |
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| | wise and capable; sagacious | |
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| | respect for the wise | |
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| | lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it / fig. to misinterpret the original meaning / to pile up errors / refers to the letter from capital 郢 of 楚 in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕 as "promote the wise" | |
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| | to honor the wise and love the people / respecting noble talent while protecting the common people | |
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| | (of a wife) wise and kind / perfect in her traditional roles | |
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| | a wise man has passed away (idiom) | |
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| | the Magi / the Three Wise Kings from the East in the biblical nativity story | |
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| | see a worthy, think to imitate (idiom, from Analects); emulate the virtuous / Follow the example of a virtuous and wise teacher. | |
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| | the wise may appear stupid (idiom); a genius not appreciated in his own time | |
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| | listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb) | |
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| | experienced in the ways of the world (idiom); worldly-wise / sophisticated | |
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| | attendant to the emperor / wise counselor | |
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