登高望远 — Chinese idiom
登高望远
dēng gāo wàng yuǎn
Traditional: 登高望遠
Meaning
- to stand tall and see far ; taking the long and broad view
- acute foresight
Character by character
- 登dēngto rise, to mount, to board, to climb
- 高gāotall, lofty; high, elevated
- 望wàngto expect, to hope, to look forward to
- 远yuǎndistant, remote, far; profound
Idioms sharing a character
- 一步登天 yī bù dēng tiān
- 捷足先登 jié zú xiān dēng
- 登堂入室 dēng táng rù shì
- 粉墨登场 fěn mò dēng chǎng
- 难于登天 nán yú dēng tiān
- 一见高低 yī jiàn gāo dī
- 不识高低 bù shí gāo dī
- 债台高筑 zhài tái gāo zhù
- 功高不赏 gōng gāo bù shǎng
- 功高望重 gōng gāo wàng zhòng
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