不平而鳴
bù​píng'ér​míng

to protest against injustice

  • created sense approved 不平而鸣/不平而鳴 · bù​píng'ér​míng · to protest against injustice — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    不平而鸣 / 不平而鳴

    bù​píng'ér​míng

    to protest against injustice

    to speak out against an unfair situation; to air one's grievances when one has been wronged

    不平 (literal) → 不平 · bù​píng · indignant 而 (literal) → 而 · ér · [adverbial linker] 鸣 (literal) → 鸣/鳴 · míng · to express

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

    created sense