created sense approved 樗栎/樗櫟 · chūlì · good-for-nothing — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
樗栎 / 樗櫟
chūlì
good-for-nothing
(literary) an incapable or useless person; originally referring to trees with low-quality wood that is unfit for construction; often used as a self-depreciating expression for one's own lack of talent.
shūlì
樗 (literal) → 樗 · chū · useless 栎 (literal) → 栎/櫟 · lì · oak
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition