看破紅塵 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 看破红尘 kànpòhóngchén ㄎㄢˋ ㄆㄛˋ ㄏㄨㄥˊ ㄔㄣˊ to see through the illusions of the material world (often a precursor to becoming a Buddhist monk or nun) to become disillusioned with human society idiom Character by character 看(kàn)see 破(pò)broken 紅(hóng)surname Hong 塵(chén)dust A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0