{"path":"/entry/53349","title":"暴虎冯河 / 暴虎馮河 (bào hǔ píng hé) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"暴虎冯河 / 暴虎馮河 (bào hǔ píng hé): literally fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":53349,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["暴虎冯河"],"TRADITIONAL":["暴虎馮河"]}},"phonetic":"bào hǔ píng hé","phoneticKey":"bao4 hu3 ping2 he2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively to display foolhardy courage","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[{"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["冯"],"TRADITIONAL":["馮"]}},"phonetic":"píng","primaryPhonetic":"féng"}],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"to fight tiger bare-handed and wade rivers","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"The earliest reference was attested in the Classic of Poetry, poem 195 (《詩經·小雅·小旻》), in the negative :","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"The literal meaning was also commented upon in the Erya, from which Kong Anguo quoted in his commentary on the Analects.","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"不敢暴虎，不敢冯河。","traditional":"不敢暴虎，不敢馮河。"},"phonetic":"Bùgǎn bàohǔ, bùgǎn pínghé.","english":"They dare not without weapons attack a tiger;\nThey dare not without a boat cross the He.","ref":"The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}