看人下菜碟儿 kàn rén xià cài dié r

not to treat everyone equally favorably

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. not to treat everyone equally favorably
  2. 2. (dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom)

Characters

Character Meaning
看 kàn HSK 1
to see; to look at; to watch
人 rén HSK 1
person; people; man
下 xià HSK 1
down; below; to go down
菜 cài HSK 1
vegetable; dish (type of food); cuisine
碟 dié
dish; plate
儿 r HSK 1
non-syllabic diminutive suffix; retroflex final; child