箴言
zhēn yán
Pinyin
Definition
箴言
-
- admonition
- exhortation
- dictum
- the biblical Book of Proverbs
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一言一动
- 1 (one's) every word and deed (idiom)
一言一行
- 1 every word and action (idiom)
一言不发
- 1 to not say a word (idiom)
一言九鼎
- 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
一言以蔽之
- 1 one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short
- 2 in a nutshell