授予
shòu yǔ
Pinyin
Definition
授予
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- to award
- to confer
Character Decomposition
Idioms (6)
予以照顾
- 1 to ask sb to carefully consider a request (idiom)
宰予昼寝
- 1 Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom); refers to story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures
授之以鱼不如授之以渔
- 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)
授人以柄
- 1 to hand someone the swordhilt (idiom)
- 2 to give someone a hold on oneself
欲取姑予
- 1 variant: 欲取姑与 yù qǔ gū yǔ
- 2 to make concessions for the sake of future gains (idiom)