zǎi​mài​yé​tián​bù​xīn​téng

to squander an inheritance

  1. son
    child or son, particularly used in certain dialects such as Hunanese
  2. to sell
    To exchange goods for money; to be for sale; opposite of mǎi
  3. father
    (literary, bound form) father; used in the term 爷娘 yé​niáng
  4. field
    field; farmland; agricultural land used for growing crops
  5. adverb
    not
    Negative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings
  6. to grudge
    to feel regret or distress over something being lost, broken, or spent; to be reluctant to part with something or find it a pity to waste