半途而废
bàn​tú'ér​fèi HSK7

to give up halfway

  • created sense approved 半途而废/半途而廢 · bàn​tú'ér​fèi · to give up halfway — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    半途而废 / 半途而廢

    bàn​tú'ér​fèi

    to give up halfway

    to leave something unfinished; to stop doing something before it is completed; to fail to see something through to the end

    半途 (literal) → 半途 · bàn​tú · 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