三个臭皮匠，合成一个诸葛亮
sān​gè​chòu​pí​jiang​hé​chéng​yī​gè​zhū​gě​liàng

collective wisdom

  • created sense approved 三个臭皮匠，合成一个诸葛亮/三個臭皮匠，合成一個諸葛亮 · sān​gè​chòu​pí​jiang​hé​chéng​yī​gè​zhū​gě​liàng · collective wisdom — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    三个臭皮匠，合成一个诸葛亮 / 三個臭皮匠，合成一個諸葛亮

    sān​gè​chòu​pí​jiang​hé​chéng​yī​gè​zhū​gě​liàng

    collective wisdom

    Literally "three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius"; implies that the combined ideas of ordinary people can be more powerful than one person working alone

    三个 (literal) → 三个/三個 · sān​ge · three 臭 (literal) → 臭 · chòu · inferior 皮匠 (literal) → 皮匠 · pí​jiang · cobbler ， (non_chinese) 合成 (literal) → 合成 · hé​chéng · to compose 一个 (literal) → 一个/一個 · yī​ge · one 诸葛亮 (literal) → 诸葛亮/諸葛亮 · zhū​gě​liàng · Zhuge Liang

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense