easy to grasp but difficult to put into practice (idiom); easier said than done
trad. 知易行難
Also written 知易行難【zhī yì xíng nán】
Characters in this word
4知
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to know, to be aware
- Pinyin
- zhī
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 3344 of 2500
易
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
surname Yi, I Ching; Book of Changes (abbr. for 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1])
- Pinyin
- Yì
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 16361 of 2500
行
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(bound form) row; line, (bound form) line of business; trade; profession, (bound form) commercial firm, (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age), (in data tables) row; (Tw) column, classifier for rows or lines
- Pinyin
- háng
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 379 of 2500
难
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difficult (to...), problem, difficulty, difficult, not good
- Pinyin
- nán
- Traditional
- 難
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 1327 of 2500