看破红尘 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 看破紅塵 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 红(hóng)surname Hong 尘(chén)dust A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0