志不在此 — Chinese idiom

Meaning

• to have one's ambitions elsewhere

Character by character

• 志zhìdetermination, will; mark, sign; to record, to wri
• 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
• 在zàiat, in, on; to exist; used to indicate the present
• 此cǐthis, these; in this case, then

Idioms sharing a character

• 仁人志士 rén rén zhì shì
• 专心致志 zhuān xīn zhì zhì
• 小人得志 xiǎo rén dé zhì
• 志同道合 zhì tóng dào hé
• 志在四方 zhì zài sì fāng
• 志士仁人 zhì shì rén rén
• 志得意满 zhì dé yì mǎn
• 有志之士 yǒu zhì zhī shì
• 有志竟成 yǒu zhì jìng chéng
• 淡泊明志 dàn bó míng zhì

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