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屈才
qū​cái

to waste talent

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
屈才 qū//cái
to waste talent
to waste or misuse someone's talent; to have abilities that are not fully utilized in one's current position

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.120 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.168 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 大材小用 dà​cái​xiǎo​yòng

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)