不登大雅之堂
Traditional form:
不登大雅之堂
Pinyin (reading):
bùdēngdàyǎzhītáng
Definitions:
- lit. not fit for elegant hall (of artwork)
- not presentable
- coarse
- unrefined
Characters:
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 登 - to rise, to mount, to board, to climb
- 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
- 雅 - elegant, graceful, refined
- 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
- 堂 - hall, large room; government office; cousins
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