弃井 (棄井) qì jǐng
qì jǐng
phrase
to abandon a well [before it is completed]
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: By analogy to abandon work before it is completed, wasting the previous effort (Guoyu '棄井'; Mathews 1931 '棄井', p. 72)
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷五十九 Scroll 59 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 盡心上 Jin Xin I Mencius 孟子 — count: 1
- 《盡心章句上》 Commentary on Jin Xin I Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 1