Chinese Dictionary

Usage of the character 践

to fulfill (a promise)
to tread
to walk

to waste
to spoil
to destroy
to insult grievously

to keep a promise
to honor an agreement

to carry out; to implement; to keep (one's word)

to ill-use
to humiliate
to degrade
to ruin
also pr. (zuójiàn)

practice
to put into practice
to live up to (a promise)
to carry out (a project)

to carry out (a task)

King Gou Jian of Yue (c. 470 BC), sometimes considered one of the Five Hegemons 春秋五霸

to trample

Yuè Wáng Gōu Jiàn

King Gou Jian of Yue (c. 470 BC), sometimes considered one of the Five Hegemons 春秋五霸

shíjiànshìjiǎnyànzhēnlǐdewéiyībiāozhǔn

实践是检验真理的唯一标准

[實踐是檢驗真理的唯一標準]

Actual practice is the sole criterion for judging truth (item from Deng Xiaoping theory, from 1978)