遺珠棄璧
yí​zhū​qì​bì

to cast aside talent

  • created sense approved 遗珠弃璧/遺珠棄璧 · yí​zhū​qì​bì · to cast aside talent — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    遗珠弃璧 / 遺珠棄璧

    yí​zhū​qì​bì

    to cast aside talent

    discarded pearls and jade; an idiom used to describe precious things or talented people that have been overlooked and left unused

    遗珠 (literal) → 遗珠/遺珠 · yí​zhū · unrecognized talent 弃 (literal) → 弃/棄 · qì · to abandon 璧 (literal) → 璧 · bì · fine jade

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

    created sense