临川羡鱼 lín chuān xiàn yú

only admire others’ gains; just wish, not act

Word data

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Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. see lín yuān xiàn yúlín yuān xiàn yú,不如退而结网[lin2 yuan1 xian4 yu2 , bu4 ru2 tui4 er2 jie2 wang3]

Characters

Character Meaning
to face; to be (just) about to; just before
river
to envy
fish; surname Yu