Chinese Idioms - Chengyu

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    literally one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar); fig. scrupulous attention to detail

    yī
    一
    bǎn
    板
    sān
    三
    yǎn
    眼
    一板三眼
    yī bǎn sān yǎn

    Word by word translation of this Chinese idiom

    一
    yī
    one / 1 / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire / whole / all / throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
    板
    bǎn
    board / plank / plate / shutter / table tennis bat / clappers (music) / accented beat in Chinese music / hard / stiff / to stop smiling or look serious / see 老闆|老板, boss / CL:塊|块[kuài]
    pàn
    to catch sight of in a doorway (old)
    三
    sān
    three / 3 / surname San
    眼
    yǎn
    eye / small hole / crux (of a matter) / classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc) / CL:隻|只[zhī],雙|双[shuāng]
    Data is based on CC-CEDICT. See the full data in action here MDBG Chinese-English dictionary.

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