病从口入
bìng​cóng​kǒu​rù

illness enters by the mouth

  • created sense approved 病从口入/病從口入 · bìng​cóng​kǒu​rù · illness enters by the mouth — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    病从口入 / 病從口入

    bìng​cóng​kǒu​rù

    illness enters by the mouth

    (idiom) Illness is caused by what one eats, so one should be careful with diet; sometimes used figuratively to mean that a loose tongue causes trouble.

    病 (literal) → 病 · bìng · illness 从 (literal) → 从/從 · cóng · through 口 (literal) → 口 · kǒu · mouth 入 (literal) → 入 · rù · to enter

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

    created sense