{"path":"/entry/95083","title":"虚怀若谷 / 虛懷若谷 (xū huái ruò gǔ) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"虚怀若谷 / 虛懷若谷 (xū huái ruò gǔ): receptive as an echoing canyon (idiom) · modest and open-minded. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":95083,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["虚怀若谷"],"TRADITIONAL":["虛懷若谷"]}},"phonetic":"xū huái ruò gǔ","phoneticKey":"xu1 huai2 ruo4 gu3","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"receptive as an echoing canyon ","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":"modest and open-minded","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADJECTIVE"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"receptive as an echoing canyon","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 15:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Alternatively, from Chapter 41:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Where Wang Bi annotated,","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"敦兮，其若朴，旷兮，其若谷。","traditional":"敦兮，其若樸，曠兮，其若谷。"},"phonetic":"Dūn xī, qí ruò pǔ, kuàng xī, qí ruò gǔ.","english":"Simple and natural like the uncarved block;\nVacant and deep like a valley.","ref":"Tao Te Ching, 4ᵗʰ century BCE"},{"text":{"simplified":"上德若谷。","traditional":null},"phonetic":"Shàngdé ruò gǔ.","english":"The great virtue resembles the valley.","ref":"Tao Te Ching, 4ᵗʰ century BCE"},{"text":{"simplified":"不德其德，无所怀也。","traditional":"不德其德，無所懷也。"},"phonetic":"Bù dé qí dé, wú suǒ huái yě.","english":"The truly virtuous ones do not regard his virtue as a possession; thus he harboured nothing within.","ref":null}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}