"伯樂相馬" meaning in All languages combined

See 伯樂相馬 on Wiktionary

Phrase [Chinese]

IPA: /pu̯ɔ³⁵ lɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /paːk̚³ lɔːk̚² sœːŋ³³ maː¹³/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA] Forms: 伯乐相马 [Simplified-Chinese]
Etymology: From the Han shi waizhuan: : From the Zashuosi Etymology templates: {{lw|zh|s:zh:韓詩外傳/卷第7|韓詩外傳/卷第7}} 韓詩外傳/卷第7, {{lw|zh|s:zh: 雜說四|雜說四}} 雜說四 Head templates: {{head|zh|idiom}} 伯樂相馬
  1. Praising those who are good at discovering talent Wikipedia link: Han Yu, Han shi waizhuan Tags: idiomatic
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (99a4ed9 and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.