CANTONESE ↔ ENGLISH · CC-CANTO
玉不琢,不成器
Cantonese · source Jyutpingjuk6 bat1 doek3 , bat1 sing4 hei3
Meanings
- a piece of jade without chiselling will not become a useful vessel; the finest diamond must be cut
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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: yu4 bu4 zhuo2 , bu4 cheng2 qi4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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