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scholars tend to disparage one another (idiom)

language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67

scholar / literati

person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

physiognomy

each other / one another / mutually / fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶[pi2 pa5] (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品[pin3])

appearance / portrait / picture / government minister / (physics) phase / (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features) / to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)

to hold each other in low regard

light / easy / gentle / soft / reckless / unimportant / frivolous / small in number / unstressed / neutral / to disparage