言教不如身教 Save Sign in to save words yánjiàobùrúshēnjiào ㄧㄢˊ ㄐㄧㄠˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄨˊ ㄕㄣ ㄐㄧㄠˋ Explaining in words is not as good as teaching by example (idiom). Action speaks louder than words. Character by character 言(yán)words 教(jiào)teaching 不(bù)no 如(rú)as 身(shēn)body 教(jiào)teaching A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0