to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on preference between advisers rather than the merits of the case
trad. 以人廢言
Also written 以人廢言【yǐ rén fèi yán】
Characters in this word
4以
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
old variant of 以[yi3]
- Pinyin
- yǐ
- Traditional
- 㕥
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 367 of 2500
人
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
person; people, CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- Pinyin
- rén
- Strokes
- 2
- Frequency
- 30 of 2500
废
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to abolish, to abandon, to abrogate, to discard, to depose, to oust, crippled, abandoned, waste
- Pinyin
- fèi
- Traditional
- 廢
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 8695 of 2500
言
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
words, speech, to say, to talk
- Pinyin
- yán
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 6821 of 2500