{"path":"/entry/6364","title":"令行禁止 (lìng xíng jìn zhǐ) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"令行禁止 (lìng xíng jìn zhǐ): orders are carried out and prohibitions are observed (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":6364,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["令行禁止"],"TRADITIONAL":["令行禁止"]}},"phonetic":"lìng xíng jìn zhǐ","phoneticKey":"ling4 xing2 jin4 zhi3","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"orders are carried out and prohibitions are observed ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to execute every order without fail","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":70676,"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":"Frequently used in various pre-Qin texts. An explanatory usage can be found in Guanzi:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"In the same book, this four-character form was attested five times, once in Chapter 6 and four times in Chapter 67, for example:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Contemporaneously, attested three times in Xunzi, three times in Han Feizi, and once in The Lost Books of Zhou, see the quotations below.","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"令则行，禁则止。宪之所及，俗之所被，如百体之从心，政之所期也。","traditional":"令則行，禁則止。憲之所及，俗之所被，如百體之從心，政之所期也。"},"phonetic":"Lìng zé xíng, jìn zé zhǐ. Xiàn zhī suǒjí, sú zhī suǒ bèi, rú bǎitǐ zhī cóng xīn, zhèng zhī suǒ qī yě.","english":"If there is an order, carry it out. If there is a prohibition on something, stop doing it. Wherever the laws and customs reach should [accept and abide by them,] just like how one's organs follow their heart. This is what statesmen expect.","ref":"Guanzi, 5ᵗʰ century BCE to 220 CE"},{"text":{"simplified":"故令行禁止，主尊而臣卑。","traditional":null},"phonetic":"Gù lìngxíngjìnzhǐ, zhǔ zūn ér chén bēi.","english":"Thus, all orders will be carried out and all injunctions will be complied with. The sovereign himself can become honourable and powerful, and his officials will be subservient to him.","ref":"ibid."}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}