不争气
bù​zhēng​qì

disappointing

  • created sense approved 不争气/不爭氣 · bù​zhēng​qì · disappointing — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    不争气 / 不爭氣

    bù​zhēng​qì

    disappointing

    to be disappointing; to fail to live up to expectations; to lack ambition or fail to strive for improvement

    不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 争气 (literal) → 争气/爭氣 · zhēng​qì · to work hard to excel

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense