"老馬識途" meaning in 漢語

See 老馬識途 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

IPA: /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵ tʰu³⁵/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Mainland-China, Sinological-IPA], /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩⁵¹ tʰu³⁵/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Taiwan, Sinological-IPA], /lou̯¹³ maː¹³ sɪk̚⁵ tʰou̯²¹/ [Cantonese, Standard-Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, IPA], /lo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ si̯ɪk̚³²⁻⁴ tɔ²⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Xiamen, IPA] Forms: 老马识途 [Simplified-Chinese]
Etymology: 語出《韓非子·說林上》:
  1. 比喻有經驗者熟悉情況,能發揮指引的作用
    Sense id: zh-老馬識途-zh-phrase-eGm05n0M
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
{
  "anagrams": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Traditional-Chinese"
      ],
      "word": "識途老馬"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ],
      "word": "识途老马"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "來自《韓非子》的漢語成語",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "官話成語",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "官話詞元",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "帶「老」的漢語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "帶「識」的漢語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "帶「途」的漢語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "帶「馬」的漢語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有1個詞條的頁面",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有國際音標的漢語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有多個讀音的官話詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有引文的文言文詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有詞條的頁面",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "泉漳話成語",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "泉漳話詞元",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "漢語成語",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "漢語詞元",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "粵語成語",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "粵語詞元",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "越南語",
      "lang_code": "vi",
      "tags": [
        "calque"
      ],
      "word": "ngựa quen đường cũ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_examples": [
    {
      "ref": "《韓非子》,約公元前2世紀",
      "roman": "Guǎn Zhòng, Xí Péng cóng yú Huángōng ér fá Gūzhú, chūn wǎng dōng fǎn, míhuò shī dào. Guǎn Zhòng yuē: “Lǎo mǎ zhī zhì kě yòng yě.” Nǎi fàng lǎo mǎ ér suí zhī, suì dé dào.",
      "tags": [
        "Pinyin",
        "Classical-Chinese",
        "Traditional-Chinese"
      ],
      "text": "管仲、隰朋從於桓公而伐孤竹,春往冬反,迷惑失道。管仲曰:「老馬之智可用也。」乃放老馬而隨之,遂得道。"
    },
    {
      "ref": "《韓非子》,約公元前2世紀",
      "roman": "Guǎn Zhòng, Xí Péng cóng yú Huángōng ér fá Gūzhú, chūn wǎng dōng fǎn, míhuò shī dào. Guǎn Zhòng yuē: “Lǎo mǎ zhī zhì kě yòng yě.” Nǎi fàng lǎo mǎ ér suí zhī, suì dé dào.",
      "tags": [
        "Pinyin",
        "Classical-Chinese",
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ],
      "text": "管仲、隰朋从于桓公而伐孤竹,春往冬反,迷惑失道。管仲曰:「老马之智可用也。」乃放老马而随之,遂得道。"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "語出《韓非子·說林上》:",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "老马识途",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "漢語",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "pos_title": "成語",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "比喻有經驗者熟悉情況,能發揮指引的作用"
      ],
      "id": "zh-老馬識途-zh-phrase-eGm05n0M"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lǎomǎshítú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lǎomǎshìtú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄌㄠˇ ㄇㄚˇ ㄕˊ ㄊㄨˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄌㄠˇ ㄇㄚˇ ㄕˋ ㄊㄨˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lou⁵ maa⁵ sik¹ tou⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phak-fa-su"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ló-má-sek-tô͘"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lǎomǎshítú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Pinyin",
        "phonetic"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "láomǎshítú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄌㄠˇ ㄇㄚˇ ㄕˊ ㄊㄨˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lǎomǎshíhtú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Wade–Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lao³-ma³-shih²-tʻu²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lǎu-mǎ-shŕ-tú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "laomaashyrtwu"
    },
    {
      "roman": "laomašitu",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "лаомашиту"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵ tʰu³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lǎomǎshìtú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Pinyin",
        "phonetic"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "láomǎshìtú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄌㄠˇ ㄇㄚˇ ㄕˋ ㄊㄨˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lǎomǎshìhtú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Wade–Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lao³-ma³-shih⁴-tʻu²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lǎu-mǎ-shr̀-tú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "laomaashyhtwu"
    },
    {
      "roman": "laomašitu",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "лаомашиту"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩⁵¹ tʰu³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lou⁵ maa⁵ sik¹ tou⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Yale",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lóuh máh sīk tòuh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lou⁵ maa⁵ sik⁷ tou⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lou⁵ ma⁵ xig¹ tou⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/lou̯¹³ maː¹³ sɪk̚⁵ tʰou̯²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Phak-fa-su"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ló-má-sek-tô͘"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Tâi-lô"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ló-má-sik-tôo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "loymafsekdoo"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/lo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ si̯ɪk̚³²⁻⁴ tɔ²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "idiomatic"
  ],
  "word": "老馬識途"
}
{
  "anagrams": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Traditional-Chinese"
      ],
      "word": "識途老馬"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ],
      "word": "识途老马"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "來自《韓非子》的漢語成語",
    "官話成語",
    "官話詞元",
    "帶「老」的漢語詞",
    "帶「識」的漢語詞",
    "帶「途」的漢語詞",
    "帶「馬」的漢語詞",
    "有1個詞條的頁面",
    "有國際音標的漢語詞",
    "有多個讀音的官話詞",
    "有引文的文言文詞",
    "有詞條的頁面",
    "泉漳話成語",
    "泉漳話詞元",
    "漢語成語",
    "漢語詞元",
    "粵語成語",
    "粵語詞元"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "越南語",
      "lang_code": "vi",
      "tags": [
        "calque"
      ],
      "word": "ngựa quen đường cũ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_examples": [
    {
      "ref": "《韓非子》,約公元前2世紀",
      "roman": "Guǎn Zhòng, Xí Péng cóng yú Huángōng ér fá Gūzhú, chūn wǎng dōng fǎn, míhuò shī dào. Guǎn Zhòng yuē: “Lǎo mǎ zhī zhì kě yòng yě.” Nǎi fàng lǎo mǎ ér suí zhī, suì dé dào.",
      "tags": [
        "Pinyin",
        "Classical-Chinese",
        "Traditional-Chinese"
      ],
      "text": "管仲、隰朋從於桓公而伐孤竹,春往冬反,迷惑失道。管仲曰:「老馬之智可用也。」乃放老馬而隨之,遂得道。"
    },
    {
      "ref": "《韓非子》,約公元前2世紀",
      "roman": "Guǎn Zhòng, Xí Péng cóng yú Huángōng ér fá Gūzhú, chūn wǎng dōng fǎn, míhuò shī dào. Guǎn Zhòng yuē: “Lǎo mǎ zhī zhì kě yòng yě.” Nǎi fàng lǎo mǎ ér suí zhī, suì dé dào.",
      "tags": [
        "Pinyin",
        "Classical-Chinese",
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ],
      "text": "管仲、隰朋从于桓公而伐孤竹,春往冬反,迷惑失道。管仲曰:「老马之智可用也。」乃放老马而随之,遂得道。"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "語出《韓非子·說林上》:",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "老马识途",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "漢語",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "pos_title": "成語",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "比喻有經驗者熟悉情況,能發揮指引的作用"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lǎomǎshítú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lǎomǎshìtú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄌㄠˇ ㄇㄚˇ ㄕˊ ㄊㄨˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄌㄠˇ ㄇㄚˇ ㄕˋ ㄊㄨˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lou⁵ maa⁵ sik¹ tou⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phak-fa-su"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ló-má-sek-tô͘"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lǎomǎshítú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Pinyin",
        "phonetic"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "láomǎshítú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄌㄠˇ ㄇㄚˇ ㄕˊ ㄊㄨˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lǎomǎshíhtú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Wade–Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lao³-ma³-shih²-tʻu²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lǎu-mǎ-shŕ-tú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "laomaashyrtwu"
    },
    {
      "roman": "laomašitu",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "лаомашиту"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵ tʰu³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Mainland-China",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lǎomǎshìtú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Pinyin",
        "phonetic"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "láomǎshìtú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄌㄠˇ ㄇㄚˇ ㄕˋ ㄊㄨˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lǎomǎshìhtú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Wade–Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lao³-ma³-shih⁴-tʻu²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lǎu-mǎ-shr̀-tú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "laomaashyhtwu"
    },
    {
      "roman": "laomašitu",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "лаомашиту"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩⁵¹ tʰu³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lou⁵ maa⁵ sik¹ tou⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Yale",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lóuh máh sīk tòuh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lou⁵ maa⁵ sik⁷ tou⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lou⁵ ma⁵ xig¹ tou⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/lou̯¹³ maː¹³ sɪk̚⁵ tʰou̯²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Phak-fa-su"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ló-má-sek-tô͘"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Tâi-lô"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ló-má-sik-tôo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "loymafsekdoo"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/lo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ si̯ɪk̚³²⁻⁴ tɔ²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "idiomatic"
  ],
  "word": "老馬識途"
}

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