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There are 8 total results for your spare the rod spoil the child search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

可愛い子には旅をさせよ

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 kawaiikonihatabiosaseyo / kawaikonihatabiosaseyo
    かわいいこにはたびをさせよ
(expression) (proverb) Spare the rod and spoil the child; If you love your children, send them out into the world

姑息養奸


姑息养奸

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gū xī yǎng jiān
    gu1 xi1 yang3 jian1
ku hsi yang chien
to tolerate is to nurture an evildoer (idiom); spare the rod and spoil the child

不打不成器

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bù dǎ bù chéng qì
    bu4 da3 bu4 cheng2 qi4
pu ta pu ch`eng ch`i
    pu ta pu cheng chi
spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom)

不打不成才

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bù dǎ bù chéng cái
    bu4 da3 bu4 cheng2 cai2
pu ta pu ch`eng ts`ai
    pu ta pu cheng tsai
spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom)

三天不打,上房揭瓦

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sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
    san1 tian1 bu4 da3 , shang4 fang2 jie1 wa3
san t`ien pu ta , shang fang chieh wa
    san tien pu ta , shang fang chieh wa
three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom); spare the rod, spoil the child

かわいい子には旅をさせよ

see styles
 kawaiikonihatabiosaseyo / kawaikonihatabiosaseyo
    かわいいこにはたびをさせよ
(expression) (proverb) Spare the rod and spoil the child; If you love your children, send them out into the world

Variations:
かわいい子には旅をさせよ
可愛い子には旅をさせよ

see styles
 kawaiikonihatabiosaseyo / kawaikonihatabiosaseyo
    かわいいこにはたびをさせよ
(expression) (proverb) spare the rod and spoil the child; if you love your children, send them out into the world

Variations:
獅子は我が子を千尋の谷に落とす
獅子はわが子を千尋の谷に落とす

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 shishihawagakoosenjinnotaniniotosu
    ししはわがこをせんじんのたににおとす
(expression) (proverb) make your dear ones face trials so that they may grow; spare the rod, spoil the child; the lion drops its cubs into the abyss (only raising the ones who climb back up)

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 8 results for "spare the rod spoil the child" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



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Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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