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"form": "以管窥天",
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"args": {
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"literal_meaning": "to look at the sky through a tube",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
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{
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{
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"glosses": [
"to have narrow and superficial knowledge and views"
],
"id": "en-以管窺天-zh-phrase--9vd~qDb",
"links": [
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"narrow",
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],
[
"superficial",
"superficial"
],
[
"knowledge",
"knowledge"
],
[
"views",
"views"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "以管窺豹／以管窥豹"
},
{
"word": "以管窺豹"
},
{
"word": "以管窥豹"
}
],
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]
}
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"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
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],
"zh_pron": "yǐguǎnkuītiān"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄧˇ ㄍㄨㄢˇ ㄎㄨㄟ ㄊㄧㄢ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "ji⁵ gun² kwai¹ tin¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "yǐguǎnkuītiān"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Pinyin",
"phonetic"
],
"zh_pron": "yíguǎnkuītiān"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄧˇ ㄍㄨㄢˇ ㄎㄨㄟ ㄊㄧㄢ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "yǐguǎnkueitian"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh_pron": "i³-kuan³-kʻuei¹-tʻien¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "yǐ-gwǎn-kwēi-tyān"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
],
"zh_pron": "yiigoankueitian"
},
{
"roman": "iguanʹkujtjanʹ",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Palladius"
],
"zh_pron": "игуанькуйтянь"
},
{
"ipa": "/i²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹ kʰu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
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"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Jyutping"
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"zh_pron": "ji⁵ gun² kwai¹ tin¹"
},
{
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"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Yale"
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"zh_pron": "yíh gún kwāi tīn"
},
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"zh_pron": "ji⁵ gun² kwai¹ tin¹"
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"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh_pron": "yi⁵ gun² kuei¹ tin¹"
},
{
"ipa": "/jiː¹³ kuːn³⁵ kʷʰɐi̯⁵⁵ tʰiːn⁵⁵/",
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"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
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"Guangzhou",
"Sinological-IPA"
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"word": "以管窺天"
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"Chinese lemmas",
"Chinese terms spelled with 以",
"Chinese terms spelled with 天",
"Chinese terms spelled with 窺",
"Chinese terms spelled with 管",
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"Mandarin chengyu",
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},
{
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"Mandarin",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄧˇ ㄍㄨㄢˇ ㄎㄨㄟ ㄊㄧㄢ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "ji⁵ gun² kwai¹ tin¹"
},
{
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"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "yǐguǎnkuītiān"
},
{
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"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Pinyin",
"phonetic"
],
"zh_pron": "yíguǎnkuītiān"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄧˇ ㄍㄨㄢˇ ㄎㄨㄟ ㄊㄧㄢ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "yǐguǎnkueitian"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh_pron": "i³-kuan³-kʻuei¹-tʻien¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "yǐ-gwǎn-kwēi-tyān"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
],
"zh_pron": "yiigoankueitian"
},
{
"roman": "iguanʹkujtjanʹ",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Palladius"
],
"zh_pron": "игуанькуйтянь"
},
{
"ipa": "/i²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹ kʰu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
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"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
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"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "ji⁵ gun² kwai¹ tin¹"
},
{
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"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "yíh gún kwāi tīn"
},
{
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"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "ji⁵ gun² kwai¹ tin¹"
},
{
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"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
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"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh_pron": "yi⁵ gun² kuei¹ tin¹"
},
{
"ipa": "/jiː¹³ kuːn³⁵ kʷʰɐi̯⁵⁵ tʰiːn⁵⁵/",
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
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],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "以管窺豹／以管窥豹"
},
{
"word": "以管窺豹"
},
{
"word": "以管窥豹"
}
],
"word": "以管窺天"
}
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