玩物丧志
wán​wù​sàng​zhì

trifling destroys the will

  • created sense approved 玩物丧志/玩物喪志 · wán​wù​sàng​zhì · trifling destroys the will — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    玩物丧志 / 玩物喪志

    wán​wù​sàng​zhì

    trifling destroys the will

    To become so obsessed with hobbies or trivia that one loses their ambition and stops making progress.

    wàn​wù​sàng​zhì

    玩 (literal) → 玩 · wán · to fiddle with 物 (literal) → 物 · wù · thing 丧 (literal) → 丧/喪 · sàng · to lose 志 (literal) → 志 · zhì · will

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

    created sense