小学而大遗
Traditional form:
小學而大遺
Pinyin (reading):
xiǎoxué'érdàyí
Definitions:
- to concentrate on trivial points while neglecting the main problem (idiom)
Characters:
- 小 - small, tiny, insignificant
- 学 - learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology
- 而 - and, and then, and yet; but
- 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
- 遗 - to lose; a lost article
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