看破红尘 (看破紅塵)
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Pinyin
Definition
看破红尘 (看破紅塵)
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- to see through the world of mortals (idiom, of Buddhist monk)
- disillusioned with human society
- to reject the world for a monastic life
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 good-looking
- 2 nice-looking
- 3 good (of a movie, book, TV show etc)
- 4 embarrassed
- 5 humiliated
- 1 to look after
- 2 to take care of
- 3 to watch
- 4 to guard
- 1 to take a look at
- 2 to examine
- 3 to survey
- 4 (coll.) pretty soon
- 1 to break
- 2 to smash
- 1 to look over
- 2 to examine
- 3 to check up
- 4 to ferret out
Idioms (20)
一眼看穿
- 1 to see through something at first glance (idiom)
一语道破
- 1 one word says it all (idiom)
- 2 to hit the nail on the head
- 3 to be pithy and correct
不是鱼死就是网破
- 1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)
- 2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle
- 3 it's either him or me
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
乘风破浪
- 1 to brave the wind and the billows (idiom); to have high ambitions