知难行易
zhī​nán​xíng​yì

easier to do than to understand

  • created reference approved 知难行易/知難行易 → 行易知难/行易知難 (same_as) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    知难行易 / 知難行易 zhī​nán​xíng​yì

    行易知难 / 行易知難 xíng​yì​zhī​nán

    same_as

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 知难行易/知難行易 · zhī​nán​xíng​yì · easier to do than to understand — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    知难行易 / 知難行易

    zhī​nán​xíng​yì

    easier to do than to understand

    Easier to do a thing than to understand it; a core epistemological proposition of Sun Yat-sen (Sun Wen) intended to encourage practical action and overcome the traditional view that action is more difficult than knowledge

    知 (literal) → 知 · zhī · to know 难 (literal) → 难/難 · nán · difficult 行 (literal) → 行 · xíng · to do 易 (literal) → 易 · yì · easy

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

    created sense