知人善用
zhī rén shàn yòng
Pinyin
Definition
知人善用
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- see 知人善任[zhī rén shàn rèn]
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一问三不知
- 1 lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom)
- 2 fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on
- 3 complete ignorance
一心二用
- 1 to do two things at once (idiom)
- 2 to multitask
- 3 to divide one's attention
一望而知
- 1 to be evident at a glance (idiom)
一无所知
- 1 not knowing anything at all (idiom); completely ignorant
- 2 without an inkling