有始无终 yǒushǐwúzhōng to start but not finish Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 有始无终 有始無終 yǒushǐwúzhōng to start but not finish (idiom) To start something but fail to carry it through; to lack the perseverance to finish what one started. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.101 per million Cross-References Antonym 有始有终 yǒushǐyǒuzhōngSynonym 半途而废 bàntú'érfèi有头无尾 yǒutóuwúwěi Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
有始无终 有始無終 yǒushǐwúzhōng to start but not finish (idiom) To start something but fail to carry it through; to lack the perseverance to finish what one started. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.101 per million Cross-References Antonym 有始有终 yǒushǐyǒuzhōngSynonym 半途而废 bàntú'érfèi有头无尾 yǒutóuwúwěi Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
