DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

才華蓋世

简才华盖世 · 繁才華蓋世

Mandarin · pinyin cái huá gài shì

peerless talent (idiom); incomparable artistic merit

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

才: cái · talent, ability; just, only
華: Look up this written character
蓋: Look up this written character
世: shì · generation; world; era
华: huá · flowery; illustrious; Chinese
盖: gài · cover, hide, protect

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

2–2–4–4 · cai2 hua2 gai4 shi4

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

4character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

才華蓋世 · find source passages ↗ · 才华盖世 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources 1 Cantonese reading

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

coi4 waa4 goi3 sai3

Cantonese word readings for 才華蓋世. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack