东郭先生
dōng​guō​xiān​sheng

a gullible softy

  • created reference approved 东郭先生/東郭先生 → 个/個 (classifier) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    东郭先生 / 東郭先生 dōng​guō​xiān​sheng

    个 / 個 gè

    classifier

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 东郭先生/東郭先生 · dōng​guō​xiān​sheng · a gullible softy — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    东郭先生 / 東郭先生

    dōng​guō​xiān​sheng

    a gullible softy

    A person who is foolishly kind to evil people; based on a Ming Dynasty story about a scholar who saved a wolf from hunters only to have the wolf attempt to eat him.

    东郭 (literal) → 东郭/東郭 · dōng​guō · Dongguo 先生 (literal) → 先生 · xiān​sheng · Mr.

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

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