{"path":"/entry/43039","title":"成人之美 (chéng rén zhī měi) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"成人之美 (chéng rén zhī měi): beauty of helping others succeed · act of helping someone fulfill their wish. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":43039,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["成人之美"],"TRADITIONAL":["成人之美"]}},"phonetic":"chéng rén zhī měi","phoneticKey":"cheng2 ren2 zhi1 mei3","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":"beauty of helping others succeed","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"act of helping someone fulfill their wish","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN","VERB"],"frequency":62402,"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 the Analects, Book 12 (《論語·顏淵》)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"子曰：「君子成人之美，不成人之恶。小人反是。」","traditional":"子曰：「君子成人之美，不成人之惡。小人反是。」"},"phonetic":"Zǐ yuē: “Jūnzǐ chéng rén zhī měi, bù chéng rén zhī è. Xiǎorén fǎn shì.”","english":"The Master said, \"The superior man seeks to perfect the admirable qualities of men, and does not seek to perfect their bad qualities. The mean man does the opposite of this.\"","ref":"The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}