{"path":"/entry/49565","title":"放之四海而皆准 / 放之四海而皆準 (fàng zhī sì hǎi ér jiē zhǔn) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"放之四海而皆准 / 放之四海而皆準 (fàng zhī sì hǎi ér jiē zhǔn): applicable anywhere (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":49565,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["放之四海而皆准"],"TRADITIONAL":["放之四海而皆準"]}},"phonetic":"fàng zhī sì hǎi ér jiē zhǔn","phoneticKey":"fang4 zhi1 si4 hai3 er2 jie1 zhun3","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"applicable anywhere ","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":["ADJECTIVE","VERB"],"frequency":82004,"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 Book of Rites, Book 24 (《禮記·祭義》)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"曾子曰：「夫孝，……推而放诸东海而准，推而放诸西海而准，推而放诸南海而准，推而放诸北海而准。」","traditional":"曾子曰：「夫孝，……推而放諸東海而準，推而放諸西海而準，推而放諸南海而準，推而放諸北海而準。」"},"phonetic":"Zēngzǐ yuē: “Fú xiào,...... Tuī ér fàng zhū dōnghǎi ér zhǔn, tuī ér fàng zhū xīhǎi ér zhǔn, tuī ér fàng zhū nánhǎi ér zhǔn, tuī ér fàng zhū běihǎi ér zhǔn.”","english":"Zengzi said, \"Filial piety […] push it on to the eastern sea, the western sea, the southern sea, and the northern sea, and it will be (everywhere) the law for men, and their obedience to it will be uniform.\"","ref":"The Book of Rites, c. 4ᵗʰ – 2ⁿᵈ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}