下問
xià​wèn

to learn from inferiors

  • created reference approved 下问/下問 → 不耻下问/不恥下問 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    下问 / 下問 xià​wèn

    不耻下问 / 不恥下問 bù​chǐ​xià​wèn

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 下问/下問 · xià​wèn · to learn from inferiors — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    下问 / 下問

    xià​wèn

    to learn from inferiors

    to ask advice or learn from people who are younger, have lower status, or have less experience than oneself; often used in the idiom [[不耻下问|不恥下問|bu4 chi3 xia4 wen4]]

    下 (literal) → 下 · xià · inferior 问 (literal) → 问/問 · wèn · to ask

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

    created sense