韞櫝
yùn​dú

to hide a gem in a box

  • created sense approved 韫椟/韞櫝 · yùn​dú · to hide a gem in a box — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    韫椟 / 韞櫝

    yùn​dú

    to hide a gem in a box

    (literary) to hide a gem in a box; used as a metaphor for a person of great talent living in seclusion or remaining unrecognized by society

    韫 (literal) → 韫/韞 · yùn · to contain 椟 (literal) → 椟/櫝 · dú · to store

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

    created sense