马鹿易形
mǎ​lù​yì​xíng

to confound right and wrong

  • created reference approved 马鹿易形/馬鹿易形 → 指鹿为马/指鹿為馬 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    马鹿易形 / 馬鹿易形 mǎ​lù​yì​xíng

    指鹿为马 / 指鹿為馬 zhǐ​lù​wéi​mǎ

    see

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 马鹿易形/馬鹿易形 · mǎ​lù​yì​xíng · to confound right and wrong — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    马鹿易形 / 馬鹿易形

    mǎ​lù​yì​xíng

    to confound right and wrong

    Literally "to switch the forms of horse and deer"; to deliberately misrepresent the truth or confuse right and wrong for deceptive purposes, based on the historical anecdote of Zhao Gao

    马 (literal) → 马/馬 · mǎ · horse 鹿 (literal) → 鹿 · lù · deer 易 (literal) → 易 · yì · to change 形 (literal) → 形 · xíng · shape

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

    created sense