Read Edit View history 大材小用 dàcáixiǎoyòng waste of talent Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 大材小用 dàcáixiǎoyòng waste of talent expression to use a talented person in a role far beneath their ability; a waste of talent Frequency Written text 0.253 per million Cross-References Has variant 大才小用 dàcáixiǎoyòng Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
大材小用 dàcáixiǎoyòng waste of talent expression to use a talented person in a role far beneath their ability; a waste of talent Frequency Written text 0.253 per million Cross-References Has variant 大才小用 dàcáixiǎoyòng Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)