见树不见林 jiànshùbùjiànlín missing the big picture Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 见树不见林 見樹不見林 jiànshùbùjiànlín missing the big picture to see the trees but not the forest; to fail to see the larger picture due to focusing on small details Frequency Written text 0.010 per million Cross-References Has variant 只见树木，不见森林 zhǐjiànshùmùbùjiànsēnlín Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
见树不见林 見樹不見林 jiànshùbùjiànlín missing the big picture to see the trees but not the forest; to fail to see the larger picture due to focusing on small details Frequency Written text 0.010 per million Cross-References Has variant 只见树木，不见森林 zhǐjiànshùmùbùjiànsēnlín Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
