When one is in difficulty and comports themselves well, that is a master.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
好为人师
to like to lecture others (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to like to lecture others (idiom)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 好为人师 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 好为人师 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Is this "giving sermons" or "sticking one's nose in someone else's business"?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 好为人师.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 好为人师.
Directly before
- 在好为人师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 好为人师
What does 好为人师 mean in Chinese?
好为人师 (hàowéirénshī) means to like to lecture others (idiom).
How do you pronounce 好为人师?
好为人师 is pronounced hàowéirénshī.
Is 好为人师 an HSK word?
好为人师 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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