"無中生有" meaning in Chinese

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        "1": "天下 萬物 生 於 有，有 生 於 無。",
        "2": "All things under heaven sprang from It as existing (and named); that existence sprang from It as non-existent (and not named).",
        "collapsed": "y",
        "ref": "Daodejing-L"
      },
      "expansion": "天下萬物生於有，有生於無。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]天下万物生于有，有生于无。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: Tao Te Ching, 4ᵗʰ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version\nTiānxià wànwù shēng yú yǒu, yǒu shēng yú wú. [Pinyin]\nAll things under heaven sprang from It as existing (and named); that existence sprang from It as non-existent (and not named).",
      "name": "zh-x"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Chapter 40 of Tao Te Ching:\n:\n天下萬物生於有，有生於無。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]天下万物生于有，有生于无。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: Tao Te Ching, 4ᵗʰ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version\nTiānxià wànwù shēng yú yǒu, yǒu shēng yú wú. [Pinyin]\nAll things under heaven sprang from It as existing (and named); that existence sprang from It as non-existent (and not named).",
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  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "zh",
          "name": "Taoism",
          "orig": "zh:Taoism",
          "parents": [
            "China",
            "Religion",
            "Asia",
            "Culture",
            "Earth",
            "Eurasia",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "all existence sprang from nonexistence"
      ],
      "id": "en-無中生有-zh-phrase-mPRyGLq6",
      "links": [
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          "Taoism",
          "Taoism"
        ],
        [
          "existence",
          "existence"
        ],
        [
          "nonexistence",
          "nonexistence"
        ]
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Taoism) all existence sprang from nonexistence"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to fabricate; to make up unfounded rumor; to trump up"
      ],
      "id": "en-無中生有-zh-phrase-8cvtTilL",
      "links": [
        [
          "fabricate",
          "fabricate"
        ],
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          "make up",
          "make up"
        ],
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          "unfounded",
          "unfounded"
        ],
        [
          "rumor",
          "rumor"
        ],
        [
          "trump up",
          "trump up"
        ]
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 7 65",
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          "name": "Thirty-Six Stratagems",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "out of thin air"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "out of thin air",
          "out of thin air"
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wúzhōng-shēngyǒu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄨˊ ㄓㄨㄥ ㄕㄥ ㄧㄡˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mou⁴ zung¹ sang¹ jau⁵"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "bho⁵ dang¹ sên¹ u⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wúzhōng-shēngyǒu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wújhongshengyǒu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wu²-chung¹-shêng¹-yu³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wú-jūng-shēng-yǒu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wujongshengyeou"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "учжуншэнъю"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "učžunšɛnʺju"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/u³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ joʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mòuh jūng sāng yáuh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mou⁴ dzung¹ sang¹ jau⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mou⁴ zung¹ seng¹ yeo⁵"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mou̯²¹ t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵ jɐu̯¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Peng'im",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bho⁵ dang¹ sên¹ u⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "POJ",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bô tang seⁿ ŭ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bo⁵⁵⁻¹¹ taŋ³³⁻²³ sẽ³³⁻²³ u³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Teochew"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/u³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ joʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mou̯²¹ t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵ jɐu̯¹³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bo⁵⁵⁻¹¹ taŋ³³⁻²³ sẽ³³⁻²³ u³⁵/"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Tao Te Ching"
  ],
  "word": "無中生有"
}

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    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese four-character idioms",
    "Chinese idioms",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Thirty-Six Stratagems"
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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "天下 萬物 生 於 有，有 生 於 無。",
        "2": "All things under heaven sprang from It as existing (and named); that existence sprang from It as non-existent (and not named).",
        "collapsed": "y",
        "ref": "Daodejing-L"
      },
      "expansion": "天下萬物生於有，有生於無。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]天下万物生于有，有生于无。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: Tao Te Ching, 4ᵗʰ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version\nTiānxià wànwù shēng yú yǒu, yǒu shēng yú wú. [Pinyin]\nAll things under heaven sprang from It as existing (and named); that existence sprang from It as non-existent (and not named).",
      "name": "zh-x"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Chapter 40 of Tao Te Ching:\n:\n天下萬物生於有，有生於無。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]天下万物生于有，有生于无。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: Tao Te Ching, 4ᵗʰ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version\nTiānxià wànwù shēng yú yǒu, yǒu shēng yú wú. [Pinyin]\nAll things under heaven sprang from It as existing (and named); that existence sprang from It as non-existent (and not named).",
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  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "zh:Taoism"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "all existence sprang from nonexistence"
      ],
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        [
          "Taoism",
          "Taoism"
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        [
          "existence",
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        [
          "nonexistence",
          "nonexistence"
        ]
      ],
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        "(Taoism) all existence sprang from nonexistence"
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to fabricate; to make up unfounded rumor; to trump up"
      ],
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        [
          "fabricate",
          "fabricate"
        ],
        [
          "make up",
          "make up"
        ],
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          "unfounded",
          "unfounded"
        ],
        [
          "rumor",
          "rumor"
        ],
        [
          "trump up",
          "trump up"
        ]
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "out of thin air"
      ],
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        [
          "out of thin air",
          "out of thin air"
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  "sounds": [
    {
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        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wúzhōng-shēngyǒu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄨˊ ㄓㄨㄥ ㄕㄥ ㄧㄡˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mou⁴ zung¹ sang¹ jau⁵"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "bho⁵ dang¹ sên¹ u⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wúzhōng-shēngyǒu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wújhongshengyǒu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wu²-chung¹-shêng¹-yu³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wú-jūng-shēng-yǒu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wujongshengyeou"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "учжуншэнъю"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "učžunšɛnʺju"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/u³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ joʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mòuh jūng sāng yáuh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mou⁴ dzung¹ sang¹ jau⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mou⁴ zung¹ seng¹ yeo⁵"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mou̯²¹ t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵ jɐu̯¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Peng'im",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bho⁵ dang¹ sên¹ u⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "POJ",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bô tang seⁿ ŭ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bo⁵⁵⁻¹¹ taŋ³³⁻²³ sẽ³³⁻²³ u³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Teochew"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/u³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ joʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mou̯²¹ t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵ jɐu̯¹³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bo⁵⁵⁻¹¹ taŋ³³⁻²³ sẽ³³⁻²³ u³⁵/"
    }
  ],
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    "Tao Te Ching"
  ],
  "word": "無中生有"
}