不看僧面看佛面 Save Sign in to save words bùkànsēngmiànkànfómiàn ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄢˋ ㄙㄥ ㄇㄧㄢˋ ㄎㄢˋ ㄈㄛˊ ㄇㄧㄢˋ lit. not for the monk's sake but for the Buddha's sake (idiom) fig. (to do sth for sb) out of deference to sb else Character by character 不(bù)no 看(kàn)see 僧(sēng)Buddhist monk 面(miàn)face 看(kàn)see 佛(fó)Buddha 面(miàn)face A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0