听见风就是雨 |
tīng jiàn fēng jiù shì yǔ |
lit. on hearing wind, to say rain / to agree uncritically with whatever people say / to parrot other people's words / to chime in with others |
听 |
yǐn |
smile (archaic) |
听 |
tīng |
to listen to; to hear / to heed; to obey / a can (loanword from English "tin") / classifier for canned beverages / to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) / (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) |
听见 |
tīng jiàn |
to hear |
见 |
jiàn |
to see / to meet / to appear (to be sth) / to interview / opinion / view |
见 |
xiàn |
to appear / also written 现 |
风 |
fēng |
wind / news / style / custom / manner / CL:阵,丝 |
就 |
jiù |
(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then / (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after / (same as 就是) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly / only; as little as / as much as; as many as / to approach; to move towards / to undertake; to engage in / (often followed by 着) taking advantage of / (of food) to go with / with regard to; concerning / (pattern: 就 ... 也 ...) even if ... still ... / (pattern: 不 ... 就 ...) if not ... then must be ... |
就是 |
jiù shì |
exactly; precisely / only; simply; just / (used correlatively with 也) even; even if |
是 |
shì |
to be (followed by substantives only) / correct; right; true / (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well / (adverb for emphatic assertion) |
是 |
shì |
variant of 是 |
雨 |
yǔ |
rain / CL:阵,场 |
雨 |
yù |
(literary) to rain / (of rain, snow etc) to fall / to precipitate / to wet |