"君子不器" meaning in Chinese

See 君子不器 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proverb

IPA: /t͡ɕyn⁵⁵ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /kʷɐn⁵⁵ t͡siː³⁵ pɐt̚⁵ hei̯³³/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /t͡ɕyn⁵⁵ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/, /kʷɐn⁵⁵ t͡siː³⁵ pɐt̚⁵ hei̯³³/ Chinese transliterations: jūnzǐbùqì [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄐㄩㄣ ㄗˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄑㄧˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo], gwan¹ zi² bat¹ hei³ [Cantonese, Jyutping], jūnzǐbùqì [Phonetic:jūnzǐbúqì] [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], jyunzǐhbùcì [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], chün¹-tzŭ³-pu⁴-chʻi⁴ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], jyūn-dž-bù-chì [Mandarin, Yale], jiuntzyybuchih [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], цзюньцзыбуци [Mandarin, Palladius], czjunʹczybuci [Mandarin, Palladius], gwān jí bāt hei [Cantonese, Yale], gwan¹ dzi² bat⁷ hei³ [Cantonese, Pinyin], guen¹ ji² bed¹ héi³ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization]
Etymology: From the Analects, Book 2 (《論語·爲政》) Etymology templates: {{lang|zh|(《論語·爲政》)}} (《論語·爲政》) Head templates: {{head|zh|proverb}} 君子不器
  1. A gentleman is no specialist; Unlike a tool fashioned for a specific purpose, a gentleman is well-rounded, someone who has talents suited to any task.
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.