bù​chéng​cái

to be good-for-nothing

  • created reference approved 不成才 → 不成材 (variant) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    不成才 bù​chéng​cái

    不成材 bù​chéng​cái

    variant

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 不成才 · bù​chéng​cái · to be good-for-nothing — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    不成才

    bù​chéng​cái

    to be good-for-nothing

    to have mediocre talent and no future; to be worthless or useless

    不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 成才 (literal) → 成才 · chéng​cái · to become a talented person

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

    created sense