中道而廢
zhōng​dào'ér​fèi

to give up halfway

  • created sense approved 中道而废/中道而廢 · zhōng​dào'ér​fèi · to give up halfway — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    中道而废 / 中道而廢

    zhōng​dào'ér​fèi

    to give up halfway

    To stop doing something before it is finished or completed.

    中道 (literal) → 中道 · zhōng​dào · halfway 而 (literal) → 而 · ér · [adverbial linker] 废 (literal) → 废/廢 · fèi · to abolish

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

    created sense