It's one thing to make plans, but quite another to carry them out.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
知易行难
easy to grasp but difficult to put into practice (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
easy to grasp but difficult to put into practice (idiom)
02
easier said than done
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 知易行难 actually appears in real sentences.
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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 知易行难
What does 知易行难 mean in Chinese?
知易行难 (zhīyìxíngnán) means easy to grasp but difficult to put into practice (idiom).
How do you pronounce 知易行难?
知易行难 is pronounced zhīyìxíngnán.
Is 知易行难 an HSK word?
知易行难 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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