管中窥豹

Traditional form:

管中窺豹

Pinyin (reading):

guǎnzhōngkuībào

Definitions:

• lit. to see a leopard through a narrow tube (idiom); fig. to miss the big picture

Characters:

• 管 - tube, pipe, duct; to manage, to control
• 中 - central; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target), to attain; China; Chinese
• 窥 - to peep, to spy on, to watch
• 豹 - leopard, panther; surname

Traditional characters:

• 管 - tube, pipe, duct; to manage, to control
• 中 - central; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target), to attain; China; Chinese
• 窺 - to peep, to spy on, to watch
• 豹 - leopard, panther; surname