養拙
yǎng​zhuō

to cultivate a simple life

  • created sense approved 养拙/養拙 · yǎng​zhuō · to cultivate a simple life — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    养拙 / 養拙

    yǎng​zhuō

    to cultivate a simple life

    (literary) to maintain a simple and rustic lifestyle away from public life or official duties; often used as a self-deprecating way to describe living in retirement or seclusion

    yǎng​zhuó

    养 (literal) → 养/養 · yǎng · to cultivate 拙 (literal) → 拙 · zhuō · plain

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

    created sense