Read Edit View history Discussion 东郭先生 dōngguōxiānsheng a gullible softy Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 东郭先生 東郭先生 dōngguōxiānsheng a gullible softy A person who is foolishly kind to evil people; based on a Ming Dynasty story about a scholar who saved a wolf from hunters only to have the wolf attempt to eat him. Frequency Written text 0.156 per million Cross-References Classifier 个 gè Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
东郭先生 東郭先生 dōngguōxiānsheng a gullible softy A person who is foolishly kind to evil people; based on a Ming Dynasty story about a scholar who saved a wolf from hunters only to have the wolf attempt to eat him. Frequency Written text 0.156 per million Cross-References Classifier 个 gè Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)