授之以鱼不如授之以渔 (授之以魚不如授之以漁)
shòu zhī yǐ yú bù rú shòu zhī yǐ yú
Pinyin

Definition

授之以鱼不如授之以渔 (授之以魚不如授之以漁)
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shòu zhī yǐ yú bù rú shòu zhī yǐ yú
  1. give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime (idiom)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

不
bù
  1. 1 (negative prefix)
  2. 2 not
  3. 3 no
之
zhī
  1. 1 (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de])
  2. 2 him
  3. 3 her
  4. 4 it
可以
kě yǐ
  1. 1 can
  2. 2 may
  3. 3 possible
  4. 4 able to
  5. 5 not bad
  6. 6 pretty good
如果
rú guǒ
  1. 1 if
  2. 2 in case
  3. 3 in the event that
以
yǐ
  1. 1 old variant of 以[yǐ]

Idioms (20)

一不做，二不休
yī bù zuò , èr bù xiū
  1. 1 don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end
  2. 2 Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens.
  3. 3 in for a penny, in for a pound
一丘之貉
yī qiū zhī hé
  1. 1 jackals of the same tribe (idiom); fig. They are all just as bad as each other.
一之为甚
yī zhī wéi shèn
  1. 1 once is more than enough (idiom)
一则以喜，一则以忧
yī zé yǐ xǐ , yī zé yǐ yōu
  1. 1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)
一问三不知
yī wèn sān bù zhī
  1. 1 lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on
  3. 3 complete ignorance