{"path":"/entry/88894","title":"胸有成竹 (xiōng yǒu chéng zhú) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"胸有成竹 (xiōng yǒu chéng zhú): to have a well-thought-out plan in mind. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":88894,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["胸有成竹"],"TRADITIONAL":["胸有成竹"]}},"phonetic":"xiōng yǒu chéng zhú","phoneticKey":"xiong1 you3 cheng2 zhu2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"idiom","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to have a well-thought-out plan in mind","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":21909,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"to have grown an image of bamboo in one's mind (when trying to draw a bamboo plant)","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From a famous prose by 蘇軾 (Sū Shì). See 稍纵即逝 (shāozòngjíshì). Alternatively, from a poem by 晁補之 (Cháo Bǔzhī)","traditional":"From a famous prose by 蘇軾 (Sū Shì). See 稍縱即逝 (shāozòngjíshì). Alternatively, from a poem by 晁補之 (Cháo Bǔzhī)"}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"与可画竹时，胸中有成竹。","traditional":"與可畫竹時，胸中有成竹。"},"phonetic":"Yǔkě huà zhú shí, xiōngzhōng yǒu chéng zhú.","english":"When Wen Tong (courtesy name Yuke) paints bamboo, he always has the bamboo formed in his mind.","ref":"c. later 11th century, 晁補之,《贈文潛甥楊克一學文與可畫竹求詩》"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":7,"sourceName":"HSK 3.0","name":"Levels 7-9"},{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}