格物穷理
gé​wù​qióng​lǐ

to study the nature of things

  • created sense approved 格物穷理/格物窮理 · gé​wù​qióng​lǐ · to study the nature of things — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    格物穷理 / 格物窮理

    gé​wù​qióng​lǐ

    to study the nature of things

    to examine the nature and laws of things to their fullest extent; to seek the ultimate truth through the study of phenomena

    格物 (literal) → 格物 · gé​wù · to study phenomena 穷理 (literal) → 穷理/窮理 · qióng​lǐ · to probe the nature of things

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

    created sense