听其言而观其行
tīng​qí​yán'ér​guān​qí​xíng

judge someone by their actions

  • created reference approved 听其言而观其行/聽其言而觀其行 → 言行一致 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    听其言而观其行 / 聽其言而觀其行 tīng​qí​yán'ér​guān​qí​xíng

    言行一致 yán​xíng​yī​zhì

    see

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 听其言而观其行/聽其言而觀其行 · tīng​qí​yán'ér​guān​qí​xíng · judge someone by their actions — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    听其言而观其行 / 聽其言而觀其行

    tīng​qí​yán'ér​guān​qí​xíng

    judge someone by their actions

    listen to a person's words but also observe their behavior; to judge a person not just by what they say but by what they actually do

    tīng​qí​yán'ér​guān​qí​xìng

    听 (literal) → 听/聽 · tīng · to listen 其 (literal) → 其 · qí · [third-person possessive] 言 (literal) → 言 · yán · speech 而 (literal) → 而 · ér · and 观 (literal) → 观/觀 · guān · to look at 其 (literal) → 其 · qí · [third-person possessive] 行 (literal) → 行 · xíng · behavior

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

    created sense