宽以待人 — Chinese idiom
宽以待人
kuān yǐ dài rén
Traditional: 寬以待人
Meaning
- to be lenient with others
Character by character
- 宽kuānbroad, spacious, vast, wide
- 以yǐaccording to; so as to; because of; then
- 待dàito entertain, to receive, to treat; to delay, to w
- 人rénman, person; people
Idioms sharing a character
- 外宽内忌 wài kuān nèi jì
- 宽大为怀 kuān dà wéi huái
- 宽宏大量 kuān hóng dà liàng
- 宽打窄用 kuān dǎ zhǎi yòng
- 心宽体胖 xīn kuān tǐ pán
- 一以贯之 yī yǐ guàn zhī
- 不以为然 bù yǐ wéi rán
- 不知所以 bù zhī suǒ yǐ
- 以一驭万 yǐ yī yù wàn
- 以假乱真 yǐ jiǎ luàn zhēn
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