重臣
zhòng chén
Pinyin
Definition
重臣
-
- important minister
- major figure in government
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
乱臣贼子
- 1 rebels and traitors (idiom)
- 2 general term for scoundrel
俯首称臣
- 1 to bow before (idiom)
- 2 to capitulate
功高望重
- 1 high merit and worthy prospects (idiom)