不求甚解
Chinese
| not; no | to seek; to look for; to request to seek; to look for; to request; to demand; to beseech |
very; extremely; more (than) very; extremely; more (than); what |
to loosen; to untie; to explain to loosen; to untie; to explain; to remove; to divide; to dissolve; to solve; solution; send under escort | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (不求甚解) | 不 | 求 | 甚 | 解 | |
| simp. #(不求甚解) | 不 | 求 | 甚 | 解 | |
| Literally: “not requiring a detailed understanding”. | |||||
Etymology
- 好讀書，不求甚解，每有會意，便欣然忘食。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
- From: 《五柳先生傳》
- Hào dúshū, bùqiúshènjiě, měi yǒu huìyì, biàn xīnrán wàng shí. [Pinyin]
- He delights in reading but does not seek abstruse explanations. Whenever there is something of which he apprehends the meaning, he is so happy that he often forgets his meals.
好读书，不求甚解，每有会意，便欣然忘食。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]
Originally means "trying to comprehend the idea as a whole, without paying excessive attention to any single word".
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Pinyin): bùqiúshènjiě
- (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄑㄧㄡˊ ㄕㄣˋ ㄐㄧㄝˇ
- Cantonese (Jyutping): bat1 kau4 sam6 gaai2
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: bùqiúshènjiě
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄑㄧㄡˊ ㄕㄣˋ ㄐㄧㄝˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: bùcióushènjiě
- Wade–Giles: pu4-chʻiu2-shên4-chieh3
- Yale: bù-chyóu-shèn-jyě
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buchyoushennjiee
- Palladius: буцюшэньцзе (bucjušɛnʹcze)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pu⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵ ʂən⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: bat1 kau4 sam6 gaai2
- Yale: bāt kàuh sahm gáai
- Cantonese Pinyin: bat7 kau4 sam6 gaai2
- Guangdong Romanization: bed1 keo4 sem6 gai2
- Sinological IPA (key): /pɐt̚⁵ kʰɐu̯²¹ sɐm²² kaːi̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Middle Chinese: pjut gjuw dzyimH keaX
Idiom
不求甚解
- to not seek deep understanding; to know things only on a superficial level