陈省身 (陳省身)
Chén Xǐng shēn
Pinyin
Definition
陈省身 (陳省身)
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- Shiing-Shen Chern (1911-2004), Chinese-American mathematician
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to cultivate one's moral character
- 2 (fashion) slim-fit
- 3 body-hugging
- 1 unmarried
- 2 single
- 1 to save
- 2 to economize
- 3 to do without
- 4 to omit
- 5 to leave out
- 6 province
- 7 (archaic) central government department
- 1 to get up
- 2 to leave
- 3 to set forth
- 1 body
- 2 life
- 3 oneself
- 4 personally
- 5 one's morality and conduct
- 6 the main part of a structure or body
- 7 pregnant
- 8 classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset
- 9 Kangxi radical 158
Idioms (20)
一日为师,终身为父
- 1 lit. teacher for one day, father for ever (idiom)
一身是胆
- 1 devoid of fear (idiom)
- 2 intrepid
人在江湖,身不由己
- 1 you can't always do as you like
- 2 one has to compromise in this world (idiom)
以其人之道,还治其人之身
- 1 to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game
- 2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine
以身作则
- 1 to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model