学海无涯 — Chinese idiom
学海无涯
xué hǎi wú yá
Traditional: 學海無涯
Meaning
- sea of learning, no horizon ; no limits to what one still has to learn
- ars longa, vita brevis
Character by character
- 学xuélearning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to s
- 海hǎisea, ocean; maritime
- 无wúno, not; lacking, -less
- 涯yáborder, horizon; river bank, shore
Idioms sharing a character
- 不学无术 bù xué wú shù
- 不愧下学 bù kuì xià xué
- 博学多才 bó xué duō cái
- 品学兼优 pǐn xué jiān yōu
- 学以致用 xué yǐ zhì yòng
- 学富五车 xué fù wǔ chē
- 学海泛舟 xué hǎi fàn zhōu
- 学无止境 xué wú zhǐ jìng
- 才疏学浅 cái shū xué qiǎn
- 文江学海 wén jiāng xué hǎi
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