"拋磚引玉" meaning in Chinese

{
  "etymology_text": "One of the Thirty-Six Strategems, originally in reference to tossing brickbats at one's enemy to get an (exploitable) reaction or win a greater prize.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "抛砖引玉",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Simplified Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
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      "expansion": "拋磚引玉",
      "name": "head"
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  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "to toss a brick to attract the jade",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "More than 20 years ago, Zeng Qi was the first Hong Kong businessman to go to Xiamen to invest. At the time, he thought of himself as a a plain rock that attracts jade, making it possible for even more businessmen from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas to return to the motherland to invest.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "20 duō nián qián, Zēng Qí shì dì yī ge dào Xiàmén tóuzī de gǎngshāng, dāngshí tā xiǎng de jiùshì dāng yī ge “pāozhuān yǐnyù de rén”, ràng gèng duō de Gǎng, Ào, Tái, qiáoshāng huíguó tóuzī.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "20多年前，曾琦是第一個到廈門投資的港商，當時他想的就是當一個「拋磚引玉的人」，讓更多的港、澳、台、僑商回國投資。",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "More than 20 years ago, Zeng Qi was the first Hong Kong businessman to go to Xiamen to invest. At the time, he thought of himself as a a plain rock that attracts jade, making it possible for even more businessmen from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas to return to the motherland to invest.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "20 duō nián qián, Zēng Qí shì dì yī ge dào Xiàmén tóuzī de gǎngshāng, dāngshí tā xiǎng de jiùshì dāng yī ge “pāozhuān yǐnyù de rén”, ràng gèng duō de Gǎng, Ào, Tái, qiáoshāng huíguó tóuzī.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "20多年前，曾琦是第一个到厦门投资的港商，当时他想的就是当一个「抛砖引玉的人」，让更多的港、澳、台、侨商回国投资。",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to offer one's own relatively worthless words, opinions, or services in order to attract others' more valuable contributions"
      ],
      "id": "en-拋磚引玉-zh-phrase-pFQgohne",
      "links": [
        [
          "self-deprecatory",
          "self-deprecatory"
        ],
        [
          "offer",
          "offer"
        ],
        [
          "relatively",
          "relatively"
        ],
        [
          "worthless",
          "worthless"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ],
        [
          "opinion",
          "opinion"
        ],
        [
          "service",
          "service"
        ],
        [
          "attract",
          "attract"
        ],
        [
          "valuable",
          "valuable"
        ],
        [
          "contribution",
          "contribution"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "self-deprecatory",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(self-deprecatory) to offer one's own relatively worthless words, opinions, or services in order to attract others' more valuable contributions"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "to achieve success by goading one's opponent"
      ],
      "id": "en-拋磚引玉-zh-phrase-vNwa2MNE",
      "links": [
        [
          "achieve",
          "achieve"
        ],
        [
          "success",
          "success"
        ],
        [
          "goad",
          "goad"
        ],
        [
          "opponent",
          "opponent"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "original meaning",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(original meaning, rare) to achieve success by goading one's opponent"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pāozhuānyǐnyù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄆㄠ ㄓㄨㄢ ㄧㄣˇ ㄩˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "paau¹ zyun¹ jan⁵ juk⁶"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "phau-choan-ín-gio̍k"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "pha-chng-ín-ge̍k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pāozhuānyǐnyù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "paojhuanyǐnyù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pʻao¹-chuan¹-yin³-yü⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pāu-jwān-yǐn-yù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "paujuanyiinyuh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "паочжуаньиньюй"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "paočžuanʹinʹjuj"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂu̯än⁵⁵ in²¹⁴⁻²¹ y⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pāau jyūn yáhn yuhk"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "paau¹ dzyn¹ jan⁵ juk⁹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pao¹ jun¹ yen⁵ yug⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰaːu̯⁵⁵ t͡syːn⁵⁵ jɐn¹³ jʊk̚²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "phau-choan-ín-gio̍k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "phau-tsuan-ín-gio̍k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "phauzoan'yn'giok"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰau⁴⁴⁻²² t͡suan⁴⁴⁻²² in⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɔk̚⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰau⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡suan⁴⁴⁻³³ in⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɔk̚⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰau⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡suan⁴⁴⁻³³ in⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɔk̚⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pha-chng-ín-ge̍k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pha-tsng-ín-gi̍k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "phazng'yn'gek"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰa⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sŋ̍⁴⁴⁻³³ in⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɪk̚⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰa⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sŋ̍⁴⁴⁻³³ in⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɪk̚⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂu̯än⁵⁵ in²¹⁴⁻²¹ y⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰaːu̯⁵⁵ t͡syːn⁵⁵ jɐn¹³ jʊk̚²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰau⁴⁴⁻²² t͡suan⁴⁴⁻²² in⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɔk̚⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰau⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡suan⁴⁴⁻³³ in⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɔk̚⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰau⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡suan⁴⁴⁻³³ in⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɔk̚⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰa⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sŋ̍⁴⁴⁻³³ in⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɪk̚⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰa⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sŋ̍⁴⁴⁻³³ in⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɪk̚⁴/"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Thirty-Six Strategems"
  ],
  "word": "拋磚引玉"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Chinese chengyu",
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese idioms",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 引",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 拋",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 玉",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 磚",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Thirty-Six Stratagems"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "One of the Thirty-Six Strategems, originally in reference to tossing brickbats at one's enemy to get an (exploitable) reaction or win a greater prize.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "抛砖引玉",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Simplified Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "拋磚引玉",
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  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "to toss a brick to attract the jade",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        "Chinese self-deprecatory terms",
        "Mandarin terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "More than 20 years ago, Zeng Qi was the first Hong Kong businessman to go to Xiamen to invest. At the time, he thought of himself as a a plain rock that attracts jade, making it possible for even more businessmen from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas to return to the motherland to invest.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "20 duō nián qián, Zēng Qí shì dì yī ge dào Xiàmén tóuzī de gǎngshāng, dāngshí tā xiǎng de jiùshì dāng yī ge “pāozhuān yǐnyù de rén”, ràng gèng duō de Gǎng, Ào, Tái, qiáoshāng huíguó tóuzī.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "20多年前，曾琦是第一個到廈門投資的港商，當時他想的就是當一個「拋磚引玉的人」，讓更多的港、澳、台、僑商回國投資。",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "More than 20 years ago, Zeng Qi was the first Hong Kong businessman to go to Xiamen to invest. At the time, he thought of himself as a a plain rock that attracts jade, making it possible for even more businessmen from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas to return to the motherland to invest.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "20 duō nián qián, Zēng Qí shì dì yī ge dào Xiàmén tóuzī de gǎngshāng, dāngshí tā xiǎng de jiùshì dāng yī ge “pāozhuān yǐnyù de rén”, ràng gèng duō de Gǎng, Ào, Tái, qiáoshāng huíguó tóuzī.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "20多年前，曾琦是第一个到厦门投资的港商，当时他想的就是当一个「抛砖引玉的人」，让更多的港、澳、台、侨商回国投资。",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to offer one's own relatively worthless words, opinions, or services in order to attract others' more valuable contributions"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "self-deprecatory",
          "self-deprecatory"
        ],
        [
          "offer",
          "offer"
        ],
        [
          "relatively",
          "relatively"
        ],
        [
          "worthless",
          "worthless"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ],
        [
          "opinion",
          "opinion"
        ],
        [
          "service",
          "service"
        ],
        [
          "attract",
          "attract"
        ],
        [
          "valuable",
          "valuable"
        ],
        [
          "contribution",
          "contribution"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "self-deprecatory",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(self-deprecatory) to offer one's own relatively worthless words, opinions, or services in order to attract others' more valuable contributions"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Chinese terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to achieve success by goading one's opponent"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "achieve",
          "achieve"
        ],
        [
          "success",
          "success"
        ],
        [
          "goad",
          "goad"
        ],
        [
          "opponent",
          "opponent"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "original meaning",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(original meaning, rare) to achieve success by goading one's opponent"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pāozhuānyǐnyù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄆㄠ ㄓㄨㄢ ㄧㄣˇ ㄩˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "paau¹ zyun¹ jan⁵ juk⁶"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "phau-choan-ín-gio̍k"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "pha-chng-ín-ge̍k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pāozhuānyǐnyù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "paojhuanyǐnyù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pʻao¹-chuan¹-yin³-yü⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pāu-jwān-yǐn-yù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "paujuanyiinyuh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "паочжуаньиньюй"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "paočžuanʹinʹjuj"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂu̯än⁵⁵ in²¹⁴⁻²¹ y⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pāau jyūn yáhn yuhk"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "paau¹ dzyn¹ jan⁵ juk⁹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pao¹ jun¹ yen⁵ yug⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰaːu̯⁵⁵ t͡syːn⁵⁵ jɐn¹³ jʊk̚²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "phau-choan-ín-gio̍k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "phau-tsuan-ín-gio̍k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "phauzoan'yn'giok"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰau⁴⁴⁻²² t͡suan⁴⁴⁻²² in⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɔk̚⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰau⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡suan⁴⁴⁻³³ in⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɔk̚⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰau⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡suan⁴⁴⁻³³ in⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɔk̚⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pha-chng-ín-ge̍k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pha-tsng-ín-gi̍k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "phazng'yn'gek"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰa⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sŋ̍⁴⁴⁻³³ in⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɪk̚⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰa⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sŋ̍⁴⁴⁻³³ in⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɪk̚⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂu̯än⁵⁵ in²¹⁴⁻²¹ y⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰaːu̯⁵⁵ t͡syːn⁵⁵ jɐn¹³ jʊk̚²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰau⁴⁴⁻²² t͡suan⁴⁴⁻²² in⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɔk̚⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰau⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡suan⁴⁴⁻³³ in⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɔk̚⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰau⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡suan⁴⁴⁻³³ in⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɔk̚⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰa⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sŋ̍⁴⁴⁻³³ in⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɪk̚⁴/"
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      "ipa": "/pʰa⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sŋ̍⁴⁴⁻³³ in⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɪk̚⁴/"
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