差强人意 — Chinese idiom
差强人意
chā qiáng rén yì
Traditional: 差強人意
Meaning
- just passable
- barely satisfactory
Character by character
- 差chādifference, gap; almost, nearly; in error; an offi
- 强qiángstrong, powerful, energetic
- 人rénman, person; people
- 意yìthought, idea, opinion; desire, wish; meaning, int
Idioms sharing a character
- 一字不差 yī zì bù chà
- 千差万别 qiān chā wàn bié
- 参差不齐 cēn cī bù qí
- 参差错落 cēn cī cuò luò
- 天差地别 tiān chā dì bié
- 天差地远 tiān chā dì yuǎn
- 丝毫不差 sī háo bù chā
- 阴差阳错 yīn chā yáng cuò
- 隔三差五 gé sān chà wǔ
- 鬼使神差 guǐ shǐ shén chāi
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