闻名遐迩 — Chinese idiom
闻名遐迩
wén míng xiá ěr
Traditional: 聞名遐邇
Meaning
- to be famous far and wide
Character by character
- 闻wénnews; to hear, to smell; to make known
- 名míngname; position, rank, title
- 遐xiádistant, far; to abandon, to cast away
- 迩ěrnear, close; recent
Idioms sharing a character
- 不闻不问 bù wén bù wèn
- 充耳不闻 chōng ěr bù wén
- 前所未闻 qián suǒ wèi wén
- 博物洽闻 bó wù qià wén
- 博识洽闻 bó shí qià wén
- 喜闻乐见 xǐ wén lè jiàn
- 如是我闻 rú shì wǒ wén
- 惨不忍闻 cǎn bù rěn wén
- 所见所闻 suǒ jiàn suǒ wén
- 旷古未闻 kuàng gǔ wèi wén
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