理直气壮 (理直氣壯)
lǐ zhí qì zhuàng
Pinyin

Definition

理直气壮 (理直氣壯)
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lǐ zhí qì zhuàng
  1. in the right and self-confident (idiom); bold and confident with justice on one's side
  2. to have the courage of one's convictions
  3. just and forceful

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

一直
yī zhí
  1. 1 straight (in a straight line)
  2. 2 continuously
  3. 3 always
  4. 4 from the beginning of ... up to ...
  5. 5 all along
心理
xīn lǐ
  1. 1 psychology
  2. 2 mentality
理想
lǐ xiǎng
  1. 1 an ideal
  2. 2 a dream
  3. 3 ideal
  4. 4 perfect
理由
lǐ yóu
  1. 1 reason
  2. 2 grounds
  3. 3 justification
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
理解
lǐ jiě
  1. 1 to comprehend
  2. 2 to understand
  3. 3 comprehension
  4. 4 understanding

Idioms (20)

不可理喻
bù kě lǐ yù
  1. 1 to be impervious to reason (idiom)
  2. 2 unreasonable
不明事理
bù míng shì lǐ
  1. 1 not understanding things (idiom); devoid of sense
不理不睬
bù lǐ bù cǎi
  1. 1 to completely ignore (idiom)
  2. 2 to pay no attention to
  3. 3 not to be in the least concerned about
以直报怨，以德报德
yǐ zhí bào yuàn , yǐ dé bào dé
  1. 1 to repay kindness with kindness, and repay enmity with justice (idiom, from Analects)
伤天害理
shāng tiān hài lǐ
  1. 1 to offend Heaven and reason (idiom); bloody atrocities that cry to heaven
  2. 2 outrageous acts

Sample Sentences

我觉得还得你去一趟，因为像我这样对家庭主夫本身有成见的人，怎么理直气壮地劝小周爸妈，还没开口就觉得心虚了。
wǒ juéde hái děi nǐ qù yī tāng ，yīnwèi xiàng wǒ zhèyàng duì jiātíngzhǔfū běnshēn yǒu chéngjiàn de rén ，zěnme lǐzhíqìzhuàng de quàn Xiǎo Zhōu bàmā ，hái méi kāikǒu jiù juéde xīnxū le 。
I think you should go to see yourself, because however someone with biases towards house-husbands like me might take the high horse in advising Xiaozhou's parents, I'll feel in the wrong before I even open my mouth.
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打着爱情的幌子偷情，还这么理直气壮！你有什么资格跟我谈判？你的爱啊情啊，应该自己找他去解决！
dǎ zhe àiqíng de huǎngzi tōuqíng ，hái zhème lǐzhíqìzhuàng ！nǐ yǒu shénme zīge gēn wǒ tánpàn ？nǐ de ài a qíng a ，yīnggāi zìjǐ zhǎo tā qù jiějué ！
You act as though your love affair is a real relationship, yet you still assume you're in the right?! What makes you qualified to negotiate with me? Your loving relationship, this and that, you should talk to him if you want to deal with this!
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