- external appearance and inner thoughts coincide (idiom); to say what one means
- to think and act as one
Characters
- 表 (表): exterior surface; family relationship via females; to show (one's opinion); a model; a table (listing information); a form; a meter (measuring sth)
- 里 (裏): variant of 裡|里[li3]
- 如 (如): as; as if; such as
- 一 (一): one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
Resources
- Wiktionary: 表里如一
- MDBG: 表里如一
- Examples with 表里如一 on Tatoeba
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