内行看门道，外行看热闹

内
內
行
行
看
看
门
門
道
道
，
，
,
外
外
行
行
看
看
热
熱
闹
鬧
while the connoisseur recognizes the artistry, the layman simply enjoys the show

Characters and words in 内行看门道，外行看热闹

内
內
nèi = n + ei4
inside / inner / internal / within / interior
内 = ⺆ + 人 : Mnemonic symbol: A CT scanner to see inside of someone.
内 = ⺆ + 人 : Napoleon just can't find his stapler and suspects that Neanderthal Man has eaten it. Not thinking twice he orders Neanderthal Man to enter his CT scanner in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom, finding his stapler in Neanderthal Man's stomach.
内
內
行
行
expert / adept / experienced / an expert / a professional
行
háng = h + ang2
row / line / commercial firm / line of business / profession / to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age) / (in data tables) row / (Tw) column
行
xíng = xi + (e)ng2
to walk / to go / to travel / a visit / temporary / makeshift / current / in circulation / to do / to perform / capable / competent / effective / all right / OK! / will do / behavior / conduct / Taiwan pr. [xing4] for the behavior-conduct sense
行 = 亍 + 彳 : Mnemonic symbol from "to travel": seven-league boots.

Xi Shi (xi) is tired of walking with a black sneaker on her left foot (彳) and a full armor boot on her right foot (亍). Fortunately she finds seven-league boots (行) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2).
看
ka̅n = k + an1
to look after / to take care of / to watch / to guard
看
kàn = k + an4
to see / to look at / to read / to watch / to visit / to call on / to consider / to regard as / to look after / to treat (an illness) / to depend on / to feel (that) / (after verb) to give it a try / Watch out! (for a danger)
看 = 手 + 目 : Karl Marx wants to use anthill's bathroom, but when the Eye of Providence is watching he's not able to, so he uses a big baseball glove to get some privacy.
门
門
mén = m + (e)n2
surname Men
门
門
mén = m + (e)n2
gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)
Mahatma Gandhi wants his revenge on the Chinese emperor! Like a spider he sits in the upper left corner of the encampment's kitchen, ready to strike with the trap door he installed in the floor.
门
門
道
道
doorway / gateway
门
門
道
道
the way to do sth / knack
道
dào = d + ao4
road / path / CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3] / principle / truth / morality / reason / skill / method / Dao (of Daoism) / to say / to speak / to talk / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division)
道 = 辶 + 首 : The chief and Don Quixote decided to follow the path of the Dao in the aorta's bathroom. They wear gladiator sandals and meditate sitting on the floor of the bathroom, envisioning the path to enlightment.
外
wài = w + ai4
outside / in addition / foreign / external
外 = 夕 + 卜 : There's a hole in the wall of the airplane's bathroom (ai4), and from outside (外), a bat (夕) wants to enter. Willy Walrus (w) is very afraid of bats, so he does his best to hinder the bat from entering with a voodoo staff (卜).
外
行
layman / amateur
热
熱
rè = r + e4
to warm up / to heat up / hot (of weather) / heat / fervent
热 = 执 + 灬 : Robinson Crusoe wants to heat himself up in the elevator's bathroom, so he burns his good-for-nothing grilling license on a grill to ignite a sizeable flame.
看
看
热
熱
闹
鬧
to enjoy watching a bustling scene / to go where the crowds are
热
熱
闹
鬧
bustling with noise and excitement / lively
闹
閙
nào = n + ao4
variant of 鬧|闹[nao4]
闹 = 市 + 门 : Napoleon (n) opened a shop (市) just inside the aorta's entrance (ao4) and it is bustling with noise (闹). His supermarket is so successful because he installed a trap door (门) in the floor above through which new customers keep falling.
闹
鬧
nào = n + ao4
noisy / cacophonous / to make noise / to disturb / to vent (feelings) / to fall ill / to have an attack (of sickness) / to go in (for some activity) / to joke
闹 = 市 + 门 : Napoleon (n) opened a shop (市) just inside the aorta's entrance (ao4) and it is bustling with noise (闹). His supermarket is so successful because he installed a trap door (门) in the floor above through which new customers keep falling.

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