an outsider can see things more clearly or objectively than those involved (idiom)
trad. 旁觀者清
Also written 旁觀者清【páng guān zhě qīng】
Characters in this word
4旁
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one side, other, different, lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂[dao1], 亻[ren2] etc)
- Pinyin
- páng
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 5433 of 2500
观
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surname Guan
- Pinyin
- Guàn
- Traditional
- 觀
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 33499 of 2500
者
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(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ..., (after a noun) person involved in ..., -er, -ist, (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously), (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term), (old) (used at the end of a command), (old) this
- Pinyin
- zhě
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 890 of 2500
清
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Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of China (1644–1911), surname Qing
- Pinyin
- Qīng
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 5513 of 2500