{"path":"/entry/81898","title":"管中窥豹 / 管中窺豹 (guǎn zhōng kuī bào) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"管中窥豹 / 管中窺豹 (guǎn zhōng kuī bào): literally to see a leopard through a narrow tube (idiom) · figuratively to miss the big picture. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":81898,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["管中窥豹"],"TRADITIONAL":["管中窺豹"]}},"phonetic":"guǎn zhōng kuī bào","phoneticKey":"guan3 zhong1 kui1 bao4","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally to see a leopard through a narrow tube ","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":"figuratively to miss the big picture","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN","VERB"],"frequency":89599,"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 Shishuo Xinyu, Chapter 5","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"王子敬数岁时，尝看诸门生樗蒲。见有胜负，因曰：“南风不竞。”门生辈轻其小儿，乃曰：“此郎亦管中窥豹，时见一斑。”","traditional":"王子敬數歲時，嘗看諸門生樗蒲。見有勝負，因曰：“南風不競。”門生輩輕其小兒，迺曰：“此郎亦管中窺豹，時見一斑。”"},"phonetic":"Wáng Zǐjìng shù suì shí, cháng kàn zhū ménshēng chūpú. Jiàn yǒu shèngfù, yīn yuē: “Nánfēng bù jìng.” Ménshēng bèi qīng qí xiǎo'ér, nǎi yuē: “Cǐ láng yì guǎn zhōng kuī bào, shí jiàn yī bān.”","english":"When Wang Hsien-chih was only a few years of age, he was once watching his father's pupils playing chaupar (an ancient game like dice-throwing). Seeing in advance who was going to win or lose, he said, “‘The southern airs can't compete (with the northern).’”! The pupils, belittling him because he was a small boy, then said, “This lad’s another case of someone ‘peeping at a leopard through a tube’; every now and then he sees a spot.”","ref":"Liu Yiqing (editor), A New Account of the Tales of the World, 5ᵗʰ century CE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}