严复 (嚴復)
Yán Fù
Pinyin
Definition
严复 (嚴復)
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- Yan Fu (1853-1921), influential Chinese writer and translator of Western books, esp. on social sciences
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to restore
- 2 to renovate
- 3 restoration
- 4 (computing) to fix (a bug)
- 1 grave
- 2 serious
- 3 severe
- 4 critical
- 1 to reply
- 2 to recover
- 3 to return (to a previous condition)
- 4 Re: in reply to (email)
- 1 to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration)
- 2 to turn back the clock
- 3 neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文
- 4 retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s)
Idioms (18)
一元复始
- 1 a new year begins (idiom)
克己复礼
- 1 restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects); to subdue self and observe proprieties
- 2 (any number of possible translations)
严以律己
- 1 to be strict with oneself (idiom)
- 2 to demand a lot of oneself
严以责己宽以待人
- 1 to be severe with oneself and lenient with others (idiom)
严惩不贷
- 1 to punish severely (idiom)