闻名不如见面 聞名不如見面 wén míng bù rú jiàn miàn knowing sb by their reputation can't compare to meeting them in person (idiom)
人怕出名猪怕壮 人怕出名豬怕壯 rén pà chū míng zhū pà zhuàng 1. lit. people fear getting famous like pigs fear fattening up (for the slaughter)2. fig. fame has its price
see 闻名遐迩[wén míng xiá ěr]
1. register of names2. roll
well-known journalist; prominent reporter
1. nominally2. in name only
1. middle name2. second given name
binomial nomenclature (in taxonomy)
famous scene (e.g. in a movie)
Mingshan, a district of Ya'an City 雅安市[yǎ ān shì], Sichuan
1. nominal classifier (in Chinese grammar)2. measure word applying mainly to nouns
generic drug; generic medicine
erhua variant of 恶名[è míng]
erhua variant of 混名[hùn míng]
1. to register one's name2. account name (on a computer)
(biology) specific epithet
(biology) specific epithet
binomial nomenclature (taxonomy)
Five Sacred Mountains of the Daoists, namely: Mt Tai 泰山[tài shān] in Shandong, Mt Hua 华山[huà shān] in Shaanxi, Mt Heng 衡山[héng shān] in Hunan, Mt Heng 恒山[héng shān] in Shanxi, Mt Song 嵩山[sōng shān] in Henan
(idiom) to live up to one's name; true to one's name
1. under one's own name2. named after oneself
xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害[shēn bù hài]
名称标签 名稱標籤 míng chēng biāo qiān name tag
(idiom) (humorous) (of a man) already taken (male counterpart of 名花有主[míng huā yǒu zhǔ])
1. honorary degree2. academic degree Honoris Causa
of great reputation but shallow in knowledge (idiom)
to be famous far and wide