| 见财起意 |
jiàn cái qǐ yì |
seeing riches provokes evil designs |
| 见 |
jiàn |
to see / to meet / to appear (to be sth) / to interview / opinion / view |
| 见 |
xiàn |
to appear / also written 现 |
| 财 |
cái |
money / wealth / riches / property / valuables |
| 起 |
qǐ |
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group |
| 起意 |
qǐ yì |
to conceive a scheme / to devise a plan |
| 意 |
yì |
(bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense / (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination; state of mind / (bound form) Italy (abbr. for 意大利) |