广记不如淡墨
guǎng​jì​bù​rú​dàn​mò

the palest ink is better than the best memory

  • created sense approved 广记不如淡墨/廣記不如淡墨 · guǎng​jì​bù​rú​dàn​mò · the palest ink is better than the best memory — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    广记不如淡墨 / 廣記不如淡墨

    guǎng​jì​bù​rú​dàn​mò

    the palest ink is better than the best memory

    the palest ink is better than the best memory; an idiom emphasizing that writing things down is more reliable than relying on one's memory

    广 (literal) → 广/廣 · guǎng · wide 记 (literal) → 记/記 · jì · to record 不如 (literal) → 不如 · bù​rú · not as good as 淡墨 (literal) → 淡墨 · dàn​mò · light ink

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

    created sense