直面
zhí miàn
Pinyin
Definition
直面
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- to face (reality, danger etc)
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 below
- 2 under
- 3 next
- 4 the following
- 5 also pr. [xià mian]
- 1 outside (also pr. [wài mian] for this sense)
- 2 surface
- 3 exterior
- 4 external appearance
- 1 rear
- 2 back
- 3 behind
- 4 later
- 5 afterwards
- 6 also pr. [hòu mian]
- 1 contact surface
- 2 (computing) interface
Idioms (20)
一体两面
- 1 lit. one body two sides (idiom)
- 2 fig. a situation with two sides to it
上不了台面
- 1 better kept under the table (idiom)
- 2 not to be disclosed
- 3 too inferior to show in public
不看僧面看佛面
- 1 lit. not for the monk's sake but for the Buddha's sake (idiom)
- 2 fig. (to do sth for sb) out of deference to sb else
人面兽心
- 1 human face, beast's heart (idiom); two-faced
- 2 malicious and duplicitous
以泪洗面
- 1 to bathe one's face in tears (idiom)