孺子可教 — Chinese idiom
孺子可教
rú zǐ kě jiào
Meaning
- this young person is worth teaching (used to praise sb as promising or capable of being taught)
Character by character
- 孺rúchild; blood relation; affection
- 子zǐson, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
- 可kěmay, can, -able; possibly
- 教jiàoschool, education
Idioms sharing a character
- 妇孺皆知 fù rú jiē zhī
- 乱臣贼子 luàn chén zéi zǐ
- 仁人君子 rén rén jūn zǐ
- 佳人才子 jiā rén cái zǐ
- 多子多福 duō zǐ duō fú
- 妻离子散 qī lí zǐ sàn
- 子丑寅卯 zǐ chǒu yín mǎo
- 子子孙孙 zǐ zǐ sūn sūn
- 子承父业 zǐ chéng fù yè
- 子虚乌有 zǐ xū wū yǒu
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.