心不在焉
Traditional form:
心不在焉
Pinyin (reading):
xīnbùzàiyān
Definitions:
- absent-minded
- preoccupied
- inattentive
- with one's thoughts wandering
Characters:
- 心 - heart; mind; soul
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 在 - at, in, on; to exist; used to indicate the present progressive tense
- 焉 - why? where? how?; strange; thereupon, then
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