{"path":"/entry/25001","title":"坐井观天 / 坐井觀天 (zuò jǐng guān tiān) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"坐井观天 / 坐井觀天 (zuò jǐng guān tiān): literally to view the sky from the bottom of a well (idiom) · ignorant and narrow-minded. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":25001,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["坐井观天"],"TRADITIONAL":["坐井觀天"]}},"phonetic":"zuò jǐng guān tiān","phoneticKey":"zuo4 jing3 guan1 tian1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally to view the sky from the bottom of a well ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"ignorant and narrow-minded","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADJECTIVE","VERB"],"frequency":53516,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"To sit in a well and look at the sky","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Related to 井底之蛙 (jǐngdǐzhīwā). Directly from","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"老子之小仁义，非毁之也，其见者小也。坐井而观天，曰「天小」者，非天小也。","traditional":"老子之小仁義，非毀之也，其見者小也。坐井而觀天，曰「天小」者，非天小也。"},"phonetic":"Lǎozǐ zhī xiǎo rényì, fēi huǐ zhī yě, qí jiàn zhě xiǎo yě. Zuò jǐng ér guān tiān, yuē “tiān xiǎo” zhě, fēi tiān xiǎo yě.","english":"Lao Tzŭ merely narrowed the scope of charity and duty; he did not attempt to do without them altogether. His view of them was the narrow view of a man sitting at the bottom of a well and inferring the size of the heavens from the small portion visible to himself.","ref":"circa early 9th century, Han Yu (韓愈),《原道》, translated into English as True Faith of a Confucianist by Herbert Allen Giles, 1922."}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}