坐井观天 — Chinese idiom
坐井观天
zuò jǐng guān tiān
Traditional: 坐井觀天
Meaning
- lit. to view the sky from the bottom of a well ; ignorant and narrow-minded
Character by character
- 坐zuòseat; to sit; to ride, to travel by
- 井jǐngwell, mine shaft, pit
- 观guānto observe, to spectate; appearance, view
- 天tiānsky, heaven; god, celestial
Idioms sharing a character
- 坐不垂堂 zuò bù chuí táng
- 坐享其成 zuò xiǎng qí chéng
- 坐以待毙 zuò yǐ dài bì
- 坐吃山空 zuò chī shān kōng
- 坐失机宜 zuò shī jī yí
- 坐失良机 zuò shī liáng jī
- 坐收渔利 zuò shōu yú lì
- 坐立不安 zuò lì bù ān
- 坐立难安 zuò lì nán ān
- 坐而论道 zuò ér lùn dào
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