冷暖自知 lěngnuǎnzìzhī the person drinking the water knows its temperature Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 冷暖自知 lěngnuǎnzìzhī the person drinking the water knows its temperature a Zen proverb stating that self-awareness or enlightenment comes from within and cannot be easily conveyed to others to know best by personal experience to understand the reality of a situation or the depth of a feeling through one's own experience rather than from what others say Frequency Written text 1.33 per million Cross-References Synonym 心里有数 xīnlǐyǒushù Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
冷暖自知 lěngnuǎnzìzhī the person drinking the water knows its temperature a Zen proverb stating that self-awareness or enlightenment comes from within and cannot be easily conveyed to others to know best by personal experience to understand the reality of a situation or the depth of a feeling through one's own experience rather than from what others say Frequency Written text 1.33 per million Cross-References Synonym 心里有数 xīnlǐyǒushù Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
