cái​gāo​bā​dǒu

of great talent

才高八斗 cái​gāo​bā​dǒu
of great talent
(idiom) endowed with extraordinary literary talent or learning; originally describing the poet 曹植 cáo​zhí as possessing eight-tenths of all the talent in the world

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