蠡測
lí​cè

shallow understanding

  • created sense approved 蠡测/蠡測 · lí​cè · shallow understanding — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    蠡测 / 蠡測

    lí​cè

    shallow understanding

    (literary) to have a shallow or superficial understanding of a vast subject; literally to measure the sea with a gourd, often used as a metaphor for a narrow perspective in the phrase [[管窥蠡测|管窺蠡測|guan3 kui1 li2 ce4]]

    蠡 (literal) → 蠡 · lí · gourd dipper 测 (literal) → 测/測 · cè · to conjecture

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

    created sense