DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

言行一致

Mandarin · pinyin yán xíng yī zhì

(idiom) one's actions are in keeping with what one says

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

言: yán · words, speech; speak, say; Kangxi radical 149
行: xíng · go; walk; move, travel; circulate; Kangxi radical 144
一: yī · one; a, an; alone
致: zhì · send, deliver, present; cause

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

2–2–1–4 · yan2 xing2 yi1 zhi4

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

4character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

言行一致 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 1 sense

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

phrase

(idiomatic) to be good as one's words; to match one's words with deeds

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack