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目空一切

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Pīnyīn
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HSK
the eye can see nothing worthwhile all around (idiom); arrogant / condescending / supercilious

Character decomposition:

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Mandarin
Pīnyīn
Unihan Definition
standalone and in compounds
Jyutping
Cantonese
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Four corner
Cangjie
component searchstroke orderdetailspronouncebaikeskritter
 *目* | 目* | *目
5画
eye; look, see; division, topic; Kangxi radical 109
6010.1
BU
splitcomponent searchstroke orderdetailspronouncebaikeskritter
 *空* | 空* | *空
8画
empty, hollow, bare, deserted
3010.1
JCM
component searchstroke orderdetailspronouncebaikeskritter
 *一* | 一* | *一
1画
one; a, an; alone
1000.0
M
splitcomponent searchstroke orderdetailspronouncebaikeskritter
 *切* | 切* | *切
4画
cut, mince, slice, carve
4772.0
PSH

Word decomposition:

SimplifiedEnglish Definition
the eye can see nothing worthwhile all around (idiom); arrogant / condescending / supercilious
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *目* | 目* | *目
eye / (literary) to look; to regard / eye (of a net); mesh / mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数) / item; section / list; catalogue / (taxonomy) order / name; title
 
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *空* | 空* | *空
empty / air / sky / in vain
 
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *空* | 空* | *空
to empty / vacant / unoccupied / space / leisure / free time
  
  
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *一* | 一* | *一
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
  
everything / every / all
   
   qiē
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *切* | 切* | *切
to cut; to slice; to carve / (math.) tangential
   
   qiè
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *切* | 切* | *切
definitely; absolutely (not) / (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut! / to grind / (bound form) close to / (bound form) eager / to correspond to / (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切 system should be applied to the previous two characters)