以小人之心，度君子之腹
yǐ​xiǎo​rén​zhī​xīn​duó​jūn​zǐ​zhī​fù

to judge a noble person with a mean mind

  • created sense approved 以小人之心，度君子之腹 · yǐ​xiǎo​rén​zhī​xīn​duó​jūn​zǐ​zhī​fù · to judge a noble person with a mean mind — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    以小人之心，度君子之腹

    yǐ​xiǎo​rén​zhī​xīn​duó​jūn​zǐ​zhī​fù

    to judge a noble person with a mean mind

    to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure; to use narrow-minded thinking to guess the motives of a person with high integrity

    yǐ​xiǎo​rén​zhī​xīn​duò​jūn​zǐ​zhī​fù

    以 (literal) → 以 · yǐ · by means of 小人 (literal) → 小人 · xiǎo​rén · villain 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · [possessive] 心 (literal) → 心 · xīn · intention ， (non_chinese) 度 (literal) → 度 · duó · to estimate 君子 (literal) → 君子 · jūn​zǐ · gentleman 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · [possessive] 腹 (literal) → 腹 · fù · inner heart

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

    created sense