一见高低 — Chinese idiom
一见高低
yī jiàn gāo dī
Traditional: 一見高低
Meaning
- lit. to fight it out with sb to see who is best
- fig. to cross swords with
- to lock horns
Character by character
- 一yīone; a, an; alone
- 见jiànto see, to observe, to meet, to appear
- 高gāotall, lofty; high, elevated
- 低dīlow; to lower, to hang; to bend, to bow
Idioms sharing a character
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一丘之貉 yī qiū zhī hé
- 一之为甚 yī zhī wéi shèn
- 一干二净 yī gān èr jìng
- 一了百了 yī liǎo bǎi liǎo
- 一事无成 yī shì wú chéng
- 一五一十 yī wǔ yī shí
- 一以贯之 yī yǐ guàn zhī
- 一元复始 yī yuán fù shǐ
- 一刀两断 yī dāo liǎng duàn
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.