听其言观其行 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 聽其言觀其行 tīngqíyánguānqíxíng ㄊㄧㄥ ㄑㄧˊ ㄧㄢˊ ㄍㄨㄢ ㄑㄧˊ ㄒㄧㄥˊ hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects) judge a person not by his words, but by his actions Character by character 听(tīng)listen to 其(qí)his 言(yán)words 观(guān)look at 其(qí)his 行(xíng)go A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0