才大难用
cái​dà​nán​yòng

great talent is hard to employ

  • created reference approved 才大难用/才大難用 → 材大难用/材大難用 (variant) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    才大难用 / 才大難用 cái​dà​nán​yòng

    材大难用 / 材大難用 cái​dà​nán​yòng

    variant

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 才大难用/才大難用 · cái​dà​nán​yòng · great talent is hard to employ — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    才大难用 / 才大難用

    cái​dà​nán​yòng

    great talent is hard to employ

    Describes a person who is highly capable but remains unrecognized or does not find a position where their skills can be fully used.

    才 (literal) → 才 · cái · talent 大 (literal) → 大 · dà · big 难 (literal) → 难/難 · nán · difficult 用 (literal) → 用 · yòng · to use

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

    created sense