to follow blindly (idiom); to take as one's only guide
trad. 馬首是瞻
Also written 馬首是瞻【mǎ shǒu shì zhān】
Characters in this word
4马
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surname Ma, abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]
- Pinyin
- Mǎ
- Traditional
- 馬
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 1030 of 2500
首
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head, chief, first (occasion, thing etc), classifier for poems, songs etc
- Pinyin
- shǒu
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 13188 of 2500
是
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to be (followed by substantives only), correct; right; true, (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well, (adverb for emphatic assertion)
- Pinyin
- shì
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 5 of 2500
瞻
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to gaze, to view
- Pinyin
- zhān
- Strokes
- 18