重典
 zhòng diǎn
 Pinyin
Definition
重典
 - 
              - important classic text
 - cruel torture
 - severe punishment
 
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一言为重
  - 1 each word carries weight
 - 2 a promise must be kept (idiom)
 
不知轻重
  - 1 lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things
 - 2 naive
 - 3 doesn't know who's who
 - 4 no sense of priorities
 
功高望重
  - 1 high merit and worthy prospects (idiom)
 
千里送鹅毛,礼轻人意重
  - 1 goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
 
千里送鹅毛,礼轻情意重
  - 1 goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.