浅尝辄止 — Chinese idiom
浅尝辄止
qiǎn cháng zhé zhǐ
Traditional: 淺嘗輒止
Meaning
- (lit.) to stop after taking just a sip ; (fig.) to gain only a superficial knowledge of sth and then stop
Character by character
- 浅qiǎnshallow, superficial
- 尝chángto taste; to experience, to experiment with
- 辄zhéoften, readily; scattered; the weapon-rack of a ch
- 止zhǐto stop, to halt; to detain; to desist
Idioms sharing a character
- 交浅言深 jiāo qiǎn yán shēn
- 害人不浅 hài rén bù qiǎn
- 才疏学浅 cái shū xué qiǎn
- 深入浅出 shēn rù qiǎn chū
- 浅显易懂 qiǎn xiǎn yì dǒng
- 备尝辛苦 bèi cháng xīn kǔ
- 尝尽心酸 cháng jìn xīn suān
- 未尝不可 wèi cháng bù kě
- 卧薪尝胆 wò xīn cháng dǎn
- 动辄得咎 dòng zhé dé jiù
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