역지사지

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Korean

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Etymology

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Sino-Korean word from 易地思之, from the fourth-century BC Chinese text Mencius, one of the Four Books of the Confucian canon.

Pronunciation

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Romanizations
Revised Romanization?yeokjisaji
Revised Romanization (translit.)?yeogjisaji
McCune–Reischauer?yŏkchisaji
Yale Romanization?yekcisaci

Noun

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역지사지 (yeokjisaji) (hanja 易地思之)

  1. (four-character idiom from Classical Chinese) thinking from the other person's perspective
    Antonym: 아전인수(我田引水) (ajeoninsu)
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