事後諸葛亮
简 事后诸葛亮 · 繁 事後諸葛亮Meanings
- person who is wise after the event
Characters in this entry
- 事
- shì · affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
- 後
- hòu · behind, rear, after; descendents
- 諸
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- 葛
- gé · edible bean; surname
- 亮
- liàng · bright, brilliant, radiant, light
- 后
- hòu · queen, empress, sovereign; (simp. for 後) behind, rear, after
- 诸
- zhū · various, all, these; surname
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Mandarin tones
4–4–1–3–4 · shi4 hou4 Zhu1 ge3 Liang4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
si6 hau6 zyu1 got3 loeng6
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phrase
- (idiomatic) expert in hindsight; twenty-twenty hindsight; to have pseudo-intellectual opinion after the fact but not before
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