樗櫟
chū​lì

good-for-nothing

  • created sense approved 樗栎/樗櫟 · chū​lì · good-for-nothing — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    樗栎 / 樗櫟

    chū​lì

    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.

    shū​lì

    樗 (literal) → 樗 · chū · useless 栎 (literal) → 栎/櫟 · lì · oak

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

    created sense