qiān​rén​zhī​nuò​nuò​bù​rú​yī​shì​zhī'è'è

better to have one honest critic than a thousand yes-men

  1. qiān numeral
    thousand
    thousand; the number 1,000; the financial form is qiān
  2. person
    person; people; human being; a human
  3. zhī particle
    [possessive]
    Connects a describing word or phrase to the noun it describes, similar to de but used in formal or literary writing.
  4. reduplication
    [agreement]
    (literary) an exclamation used to express agreement or obedience, similar to "yes" or "understood"; a response sound
  5. non-Chinese
  6. 不如 bù​rú verbpreposition
    not as good as
    not equal to; inferior to; to be not as good as
  7. numeral
    one
    one; the number 1; single; alone
  8. scholar
    (bound form) scholar; intellectual; member of the educated class in ancient China, as in the phrase 士农工商 shì​nóng​gōng​shāng
  9. zhī particle
    [possessive]
    Connects a describing word or phrase to the noun it describes, similar to de but used in formal or literary writing.
  10. reduplication
    honest speech
    (bound form) honest speech; blunt or straightforward talk from a place of integrity