不悱不发 — Chinese idiom
不悱不发
bù fěi bù fā
Traditional: 不悱不發
Meaning
- a student should not be guided until he has made an effort to express his thoughts
Character by character
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 悱fěiovercome with emotion; at a loss for words
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 发fāto issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair
Idioms sharing a character
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一尘不染 yī chén bù rǎn
- 一字不差 yī zì bù chà
- 一字不提 yī zì bù tí
- 一成不变 yī chéng bù biàn
- 一文不值 yī wén bù zhí
- 一毛不拔 yī máo bù bá
- 一病不起 yī bìng bù qǐ
- 一窍不通 yī qiào bù tōng
- 一笔不苟 yī bǐ bù gǒu
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