created sense approved 越凫楚乙/越鳧楚乙 · yuèfúchǔyǐ · mistaken judgment based on subjectivity — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
越凫楚乙 / 越鳧楚乙
yuèfúchǔyǐ
mistaken judgment based on subjectivity
To have an unclear understanding or make an erroneous judgment because one is limited by a subjective perspective, from a story where a person from Yue mistook a swan for a duck and a person from Chu mistook it for a swallow [[鳦|鳦|yi3]] (here written as [[乙|乙|yi3]])
越 (literal) → 越 · yuè · Yue state 凫 (literal) → 凫/鳧 · fú · wild duck 楚 (literal) → 楚 · chǔ · Chu State 乙 (literal) → 乙 · yǐ · someone
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition