小惩大诫
xiǎo​chéng​dà​jiè

to learn from a small mistake

  • created reference approved 小惩大诫/小懲大誡 → 小惩大戒/小懲大戒 (variant) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    小惩大诫 / 小懲大誡 xiǎo​chéng​dà​jiè

    小惩大戒 / 小懲大戒 xiǎo​chéng​dà​jiè

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 小惩大诫/小懲大誡 · xiǎo​chéng​dà​jiè · to learn from a small mistake — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    小惩大诫 / 小懲大誡

    xiǎo​chéng​dà​jiè

    to learn from a small mistake

    To punish minor faults in order to prevent serious crimes or repetition of a large-scale mistake.

    小 (literal) → 小 · xiǎo · slightly 惩 (literal) → 惩/懲 · chéng · to warn 大 (literal) → 大 · dà · greatly 诫 (literal) → 诫/誡 · jiè · to warn

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

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