信以为真 (信以為真)
xìn yǐ wéi zhēn
Pinyin
Definition
信以为真 (信以為真)
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- to take sth to be true
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 old variant of 以[yǐ]
- 1 after
- 2 later
- 3 afterwards
- 4 following
- 5 later on
- 6 in the future
- 1 to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.)
- 1 letter
- 2 mail
- 3 classifier: 封 fēng
- 4 to trust
- 5 to believe
- 6 to profess faith in
- 7 truthful
- 8 confidence
- 9 trust
- 10 at will
- 11 at random
- 1 information
- 2 news
- 3 message
Idioms (20)
一则以喜,一则以忧
- 1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)
一言以蔽之
- 1 one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short
- 2 in a nutshell
不以人废言
- 1 not to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on the merits of the case rather than preference between advisers
不以为然
- 1 not to accept as correct (idiom); to object
- 2 to disapprove
- 3 to take exception to
不以规矩,不能成方圆
- 1 without rules, nothing can be done (idiom, from Mencius); one must follow some rules