{"path":"/entry/2117","title":"不一而足 (bù yī ér zú) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"不一而足 (bù yī ér zú): by no means an isolated case. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":2117,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["不一而足"],"TRADITIONAL":["不一而足"]}},"phonetic":"bù yī ér zú","phoneticKey":"bu4 yi1 er2 zu2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"by no means an isolated case","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"numerous","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADVERB","ADJECTIVE"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":"bù yì ér zú"},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"The original and literal meaning in the Gongyang was \"to not make full (the approval) all at once\", i.e., to be conditional and graduated in dispensing approval. It was also written as \"不壹而足\" in the Gongyang, and typically used in the phrase","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"As chengyu, the phrase has been re-analysed semantically in common usage and shifted in meaning.","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"许夷狄者不一而足也。","traditional":"許夷狄者不一而足也。"},"phonetic":"Xǔ yídí zhě bù yī'érzú yě.","english":"To approve of a barbarian, one does not do so to the full degree all at once.","ref":"Commentary of Gongyang, c. 206 BCE– 9 CE"}],"senseScoped":true}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}