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半豹
bàn​bào

limited reading

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
半豹 bàn​bào
limited reading
(literary) Describes someone who possesses great literary talent but has not read many books; based on a historical quote suggesting that if the writer Yin Zhongwen had read even half as much as the scholar 袁豹 yuán​bào, his talent would equal that of the great historian 班固 bān​gù
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