百闻不如一见

Bǎi wén bù rú yí jiàn

— Seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times —

HSK 3 · Lesson 19

Seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times

“百闻不如一见”: 闻 means “to hear”; what you see yourself is always more reliable than what you are told.

“百闻不如一见”，这里“闻”是“听说、听见”的意思。

这句话的意思是听见一百次不如亲眼看到一次。