Don't judge people from the way they look.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
以貌取人
to judge sb by appearances (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to judge sb by appearances (idiom)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 以貌取人 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 以貌取人 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Don't judge a person by his appearance.
You shouldn't judge a man by his appearance.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 以貌取人.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 以貌取人.
Directly before
- 不要以貌取人1
- 应该以貌取人1
- 别以貌取人1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 以貌取人
What does 以貌取人 mean in Chinese?
以貌取人 (yǐmàoqǔrén) means to judge sb by appearances (idiom).
How do you pronounce 以貌取人?
以貌取人 is pronounced yǐmàoqǔrén.
Is 以貌取人 an HSK word?
以貌取人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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