视 如 己 出

shì rú jǐ chūdictionary entry

to regard someone else's child as one's own

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Original source entry:

視如己出视如己出 [shi4 ru2 ji3 chu1] /to regard someone else's child as one's own/

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Other forms in these source records: 視如己出

视
shì
(literary, or bound form) to look at
如
rú
as / as if / such as
己
jǐ
self / oneself / sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shí tiān gān] / sixth in order / letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / hexa
出
chū
to go out / to come out / to arise / to occur / to produce / to yield / to go beyond / to exceed / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc

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