舍近求远 shějìnqiúyuǎn to reject the near and seek the far Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 舍近求远 捨近求遠 shějìnqiúyuǎn to reject the near and seek the far To reject what is close at hand and seek what is far away; describes doing things the long way around or seeking the impractical instead of the obvious. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.456 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
舍近求远 捨近求遠 shějìnqiúyuǎn to reject the near and seek the far To reject what is close at hand and seek what is far away; describes doing things the long way around or seeking the impractical instead of the obvious. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.456 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
