直道而行
zhí dào ér xíng
Pinyin
Definition
直道而行
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- lit. to go straight (idiom, from Analects); to act with integrity
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 straight (in a straight line)
- 2 continuously
- 3 always
- 4 from the beginning of ... up to ...
- 5 all along
- 1 flavor
- 2 smell
- 3 hint of
- 1 surname Zhi
- 2 Zhi (c. 2000 BC), fifth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yán dì] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shén nóng] Farmer God
- 1 direct (opposite: indirect 間接|间接[jiàn jiē])
- 2 immediate
- 3 straightforward
- 1 to know
- 2 to become aware of
- 3 also pr. [zhī dao]
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一哄而散
- 1 to disperse in confusion (idiom)
一意孤行
- 1 obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)
- 2 willful
- 3 one's own way
- 4 dogmatic
一拥而入
- 1 to swarm in (of people etc) (idiom)
一望而知
- 1 to be evident at a glance (idiom)