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狗咬吕洞宾，不识好人心

gǒu yǎo Lǚ Dòng bīn , bù shí hǎo rén xīndictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
a dog biting Lü Dongbin (idiom) / to ill reward a person's kindness
Sources & editorial notes

Reference definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source release 2026-10-27T01:55:52Z. Imported 2026-10-27. Definition wording and meaning order are retained. Recognized pronunciation references are displayed with tone marks; the original source record is available below.

Source record: cd-6c2b69980c240878. Source SHA-256: bbc4b27f26bee1a262f4d7939667a040c7857c7fc0200a2fa7a86d3352a09eae.

Original source entry:

狗咬呂洞賓，不識好人心 狗咬吕洞宾，不识好人心 [gou3 yao3 Lu:3 Dong4 bin1 , bu4 shi2 hao3 ren2 xin1] /a dog biting Lü Dongbin (idiom)/to ill reward a person's kindness/

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Other forms in these source records: 狗咬呂洞賓，不識好人心

  • 狗
  • 咬
    yǎo

    to bite / to nip

  • 吕
    lǚ

    pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system

    Lǚ

    surname Lü

  • 洞
    dòng

    cave / hole / zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers) / CL:個|个[gè]

    tóng

    used in 洪洞[Hóng tóng] (the name of a place in Shanxi)

  • 宾
    bīn

    visitor / guest / object (in grammar)

  • 不
    bù

    no / not so / (bound form) not / un-

  • 识
    shí

    to know / knowledge / Taiwan pr. [shì]

    zhì

    to record / to write a footnote

  • 好
    hǎo

    good / appropriate / proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close / on intimate terms / (after a form of address) hello

    hào

    to be fond of / to have a tendency to / to be prone to

  • 人
  • 心
    xīn

    heart / mind / intention / center / core / CL:顆|颗[kē],個|个[gè]

Reference definitions from CC-CEDICT.