四体不勤,五谷不分
Traditional form:
四體不勤,五穀不分
Pinyin (reading):
sìtǐbùqín,wǔgǔbùfēn
Definitions:
- never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite
Characters:
- 四 - four
- 体 - body; group, class; form, style, system
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 勤 - industrious, diligent, attentive
- 五 - five; surname
- 谷 - valley, gorge, ravine
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 分 - to divide, to allocate; fraction; small unit of time or other quantity
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