太史令
tài shǐ lìng
Pinyin
Definition
太史令
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- grand scribe (official position in many Chinese states up to the Han)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (19)
三令五申
- 1 to order again and again (idiom)
令人发指
- 1 to make one's hair stand up in anger (idiom); to raise people's hackles
令行禁止
- 1 lit. if he orders you go, he forbids you stop (idiom); fig. to demand exact compliance with instructions
- 2 to ensure strictly obedience
以史为鉴
- 1 to learn from history (idiom)
利令智昏
- 1 to lose one's head through material greed (idiom)