{"path":"/entry/36153","title":"差强人意 / 差強人意 (chā qiáng rén yì) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"差强人意 / 差強人意 (chā qiáng rén yì): just passable. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":36153,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["差强人意"],"TRADITIONAL":["差強人意"]}},"phonetic":"chā qiáng rén yì","phoneticKey":"cha1 qiang2 ren2 yi4","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"idiom","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"just passable","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"barely satisfactory","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADVERB","VERB"],"frequency":22118,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[{"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["差"],"TRADITIONAL":["差"]}},"phonetic":"chā","primaryPhonetic":"chà"}],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Sense #2 is a recent re-interpretation of the 差 in this idiom as “below standard”.","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"帝时遣人观大司马何为，还言方修战攻之具，乃叹曰：「吴公差强人意，隐若一敌国矣。」","traditional":"帝時遣人觀大司馬何為，還言方修戰攻之具，乃嘆曰：「吳公差強人意，隱若一敵國矣。」"},"phonetic":"Dì shí qiǎn rén guān dàsīmǎ héwéi, hái yán fāng xiū zhàn gōng zhī jù, nǎi tàn yuē: “Wúgōng chāqiángrényì, yǐn ruò yī díguó yǐ.”","english":"The Emperor [Guangwu of Han] then sent someone to see what the Grand Marshal [Wu Han] was doing, who reported [that Wu Han was] refurbishing instruments of war, to which [Emperor Wu of Han] exclaimed, \"Mr. Wu does not disappoint, [as if] secretly having powers akin to that of a (rival) nation.\"","ref":"The Book of the Later Han, circa 5ᵗʰ century CE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}