聽其言而觀其行 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 听其言而观其行 tīngqíyánérguānqíxíng ㄊㄧㄥ ㄑㄧˊ ㄧㄢˊ ㄦˊ 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 聽(tīng)listen to 其(qí)his 言(yán)words 而(ér)and 觀(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