白首穷经
bái​shǒu​qióng​jīng

to study until old age

  • created sense approved 白首穷经/白首窮經 · bái​shǒu​qióng​jīng · to study until old age — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    白首穷经 / 白首窮經

    bái​shǒu​qióng​jīng

    to study until old age

    to continue studying or researching the classics until one is white-haired; to dedicate one's entire life to scholarship

    白首 (literal) → 白首 · bái​shǒu · white hair 穷 (literal) → 穷/窮 · qióng · to exhaust 经 (literal) → 经/經 · jīng · classic

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

    created sense