created sense approved 胶柱鼓瑟/膠柱鼓瑟 · jiāozhùgǔsè · stubborn and unadaptable — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
胶柱鼓瑟 / 膠柱鼓瑟
jiāozhùgǔsè
stubborn and unadaptable
To be stubborn or inflexible; refers to sticking to old ways and being unable to adapt to changing circumstances. Literally, to glue the tuning bridges of a zither so that the pitch cannot be adjusted.
胶 (literal) → 胶/膠 · jiāo · to glue 柱 (literal) → 柱 · zhù · string bridge 鼓瑟 (literal) → 鼓瑟 · gǔsè · to play the lute
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition