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为德不卒
wéi​dé​bù​zú

to start well but not finish

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
为德不卒 為德不卒 wéi​dé​bù​zú
to start well but not finish
To start doing something virtuous or kind but fail to see it through to the end; to lack the persistence to finish a good deed.

Frequency

Written text
0.006 per million

Cross-References

Variant of

  • 为德不终 wéi​dé​bù​zhōng

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)