{"path":"/entry/40203","title":"心悦诚服 / 心悅誠服 (xīn yuè chéng fú) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"心悦诚服 / 心悅誠服 (xīn yuè chéng fú): to submit cheerfully. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":40203,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["心悦诚服"],"TRADITIONAL":["心悅誠服"]}},"phonetic":"xīn yuè chéng fú","phoneticKey":"xin1 yue4 cheng2 fu2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to submit cheerfully","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to accept willingly ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":40621,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From Mencius (《孟子·公孫丑上》)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"以力服人者，非心服也，力不赡也；以德服人者，中心悦而诚服也，如七十子之服孔子也。","traditional":"以力服人者，非心服也，力不贍也；以德服人者，中心悅而誠服也，如七十子之服孔子也。"},"phonetic":"Yǐ lì fú rén zhě, fēi xīn fú yě, lì bù shàn yě; yǐ dé fú rén zhě, zhōngxīn yuè ér chéngfú yě, rú qīshí zǐ zhī fú Kǒngzǐ yě.","english":"When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit, because their strength is not adequate to resist. When one subdues men by virtue, in their hearts' core they are pleased, and sincerely submit, as was the case with the seventy disciples in their submission to Confucius.","ref":"Mencius, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}