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蠡测
lí​cè

shallow understanding

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
蠡测 蠡測 lí​cè
shallow understanding
(literary) to have a shallow or superficial understanding of a vast subject; literally to measure the sea with a gourd, often used as a metaphor for a narrow perspective in the phrase 管窥蠡测 guǎn​kuī​lí​cè

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