横眉冷对千夫指
Traditional form:
橫眉冷對千夫指
Pinyin (reading):
héngméilěngduìqiānfūzhǐ
Definitions:
- to face a thousand pointing fingers with a cool scowl (citation from Lu Xun)
- to treat with disdain
- to defy
Characters:
- 横 - horizontal, across; unreasonable, harsh
- 眉 - eyebrows; upper margin of book
- 冷 - cold, cool; lonely
- 对 - correct, right; facing, opposed
- 千 - thousand; many, numerous; very
- 夫 - man, husband; worker; those
- 指 - finger, toe; to point, to indicate
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