百聞不如一見 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 百闻不如一见 bǎiwénbùrúyījiàn ㄅㄞˇ ㄨㄣˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄨˊ ㄧ ㄐㄧㄢˋ seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times (idiom) seeing for oneself is better than hearing from many others seeing is believing Character by character 百(bǎi)surname Bai 聞(wén)surname Wen 不(bù)no 如(rú)as 一(yī)one 見(jiàn)see A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0