海纳百川
hǎi​nà​bǎi​chuān

all rivers run into the sea

  • created sense approved 海纳百川/海納百川 · hǎi​nà​bǎi​chuān · all rivers run into the sea — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    海纳百川 / 海納百川

    hǎi​nà​bǎi​chuān

    all rivers run into the sea

    (idiom) used to describe someone with an extremely broad mind or a great capacity for tolerance; literally, all rivers run into the sea.

    海 (literal) → 海 · hǎi · sea 纳 (literal) → 纳/納 · nà · to accept 百川 (literal) → 百川 · bǎi​chuān · rivers

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

    created sense