created reference approved 焉知 → 塞翁失马，焉知非福/塞翁失馬，焉知非福 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
焉知 yānzhī
塞翁失马，焉知非福 / 塞翁失馬，焉知非福 sàiwēngshīmǎyānzhīfēifú
see
Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type
created reference approved 焉知 → 怎知 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
焉知 yānzhī
怎知 zěnzhī
synonym
Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type
created reference approved 焉知 → 安知 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
焉知 yānzhī
安知 ānzhī
synonym
Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type
created sense approved 焉知 · yānzhī · how can one know — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
焉知
yānzhī
how can one know
(literary) used in rhetorical questions to mean "how could anyone know" or "who's to say"; often used in the idiom [[塞翁失马，焉知非福|塞翁失馬，焉知非福|sai4 weng1 shi1 ma3 yan1 zhi1 fei1 fu2]]
焉 (literal) → 焉 · yān · how 知 (literal) → 知 · zhī · to know
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition