颜渊 (顏淵)
Yán Yuān
Pinyin
Definition
颜渊 (顏淵)
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- Yan Yuan (521-481 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子[Kǒng fū zǐ], also known as 顏回|颜回[Yán Huí]
Character Decomposition
Idioms (11)
不啻天渊
- 1 no less than from heaven to the abyss (idiom); differing widely
- 2 worlds apart
- 3 the gap couldn't be bigger
喜笑颜开
- 1 grinning from ear to ear (idiom)
- 2 beaming with happiness
奴颜婢膝
- 1 servile and bending the knee (idiom); fawning
- 2 bending and scraping to curry favor
正颜厉色
- 1 solemn in countenance (idiom); strict and unsmiling
无颜见江东父老
- 1 (idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiàng Yǔ], who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)