Read Edit View history 冷暖自知 lěngnuǎnzìzhī the person drinking the water knows its temperature Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 冷暖自知 lěngnuǎnzìzhī the person drinking the water knows its temperature a Zen proverb stating that self-awareness or enlightenment comes from within and cannot be easily conveyed to others to know best by personal experience to understand the reality of a situation or the depth of a feeling through one's own experience rather than from what others say Frequency Written text 1.33 per million Cross-References Synonym 心里有数 xīnlǐyǒushù Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
冷暖自知 lěngnuǎnzìzhī the person drinking the water knows its temperature a Zen proverb stating that self-awareness or enlightenment comes from within and cannot be easily conveyed to others to know best by personal experience to understand the reality of a situation or the depth of a feeling through one's own experience rather than from what others say Frequency Written text 1.33 per million Cross-References Synonym 心里有数 xīnlǐyǒushù Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)