{"path":"/entry/76205","title":"尽善尽美 / 盡善盡美 (jìn shàn jìn měi) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"尽善尽美 / 盡善盡美 (jìn shàn jìn měi): perfect (idiom) · perfection. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":76205,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["尽善尽美"],"TRADITIONAL":["盡善盡美"]}},"phonetic":"jìn shàn jìn měi","phoneticKey":"jin4 shan4 jin4 mei3","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"perfect ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"perfection","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"the best of all possible worlds","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"as good as it gets","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN","VERB"],"frequency":23286,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[{"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["尽"],"TRADITIONAL":["盡"]}},"phonetic":"jìn","primaryPhonetic":"jǐn"}],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"to exhaust what is good and beautiful; to be unsurpassed in goodness and beauty","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From the Analects, Book 3 (《論語·八佾》)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"子谓韶，「尽美矣，又尽善也。」谓武，「尽美矣，未尽善也」。","traditional":"子謂韶，「盡美矣，又盡善也。」謂武，「盡美矣，未盡善也」。"},"phonetic":"Zǐ wèi Sháo, “jìn měi yǐ, yòu jìn shàn yě.” Wèi Wǔ, “jìn měi yǐ, wèi jìn shàn yě”.","english":"The Master said of the Shao that it was perfectly beautiful and also perfectly good. He said of the Wu that it was perfectly beautiful but not perfectly good.","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}}