不务正业
Traditional form:
不務正業
Pinyin (reading):
bùwùzhèngyè
Definitions:
- not to engage in honest work
- to ignore one's proper occupation
- not to attend to one's proper duties
Characters:
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 务 - affairs, business; should; must
- 正 - straight, right, proper, correct, just, true
- 业 - business, profession; to study, to work
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