understand by heart

understand by heart

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǐ y ì n ì zh ì, which means to use one's own ideas to guess other people's minds. From Mencius, wanzhangshang.

Idiom explanation

Use your own ideas to judge other people's thoughts.

The origin of Idioms

Mencius wanzhangshang: "therefore, those who say the book of songs do not harm words by words, and do not harm ambition by words; those who oppose ambition by ideas are to gain it."

Analysis of Idioms

Zhu Ziqing's Bi Xing: "to oppose one's will with one's will is to accept the poet's will with one's own will."