化身
huà shēn
Pinyin
Definition
化身
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- incarnation
- reincarnation
- embodiment (of abstract idea)
- personification
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一日为师,终身为父
- 1 lit. teacher for one day, father for ever (idiom)
一身是胆
- 1 devoid of fear (idiom)
- 2 intrepid
人在江湖,身不由己
- 1 you can't always do as you like
- 2 one has to compromise in this world (idiom)
以其人之道,还治其人之身
- 1 to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game
- 2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine
以身作则
- 1 to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model