There are 8 total results for your 知人 search.
| Characters | Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
知人 see styles |
zhī rén zhi1 ren2 chih jen chijin ちじん |
friend; acquaintance; (personal name) Tomohito know people as individuals |
知人町 see styles |
shiritochou / shiritocho しりとちょう |
(place-name) Shiritochō |
知人礁 see styles |
shiritoshou / shiritosho しりとしょう |
(personal name) Shiritoshou |
知人駅 see styles |
shiritoeki しりとえき |
(st) Shirito Station |
知人善任 see styles |
zhī rén shàn rèn zhi1 ren2 shan4 ren4 chih jen shan jen |
(idiom) expert at appointing people according to their abilities; to put the right people in the right places |
知人善用 see styles |
zhī rén shàn yòng zhi1 ren2 shan4 yong4 chih jen shan yung |
see 知人善任[zhi1 ren2 shan4 ren4] |
知人知面不知心 see styles |
zhī rén zhī miàn bù zhī xīn zhi1 ren2 zhi1 mian4 bu4 zhi1 xin1 chih jen chih mien pu chih hsin |
one may know a person for a long time without understanding his true nature (idiom) |
知人者智，自知者明 see styles |
zhī rén zhě zhì , zì zhī zhě míng zhi1 ren2 zhe3 zhi4 , zi4 zhi1 zhe3 ming2 chih jen che chih , tzu chih che ming |
those who understand others are clever, but those who know themselves are truly wise (idiom, from Laozi's 道德經|道德经[Dao4 de2 jing1] |
Information about this dictionary:
Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.
A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.
Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House
This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).
Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.
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