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From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「大璞不完」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「大璞不完」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

It means that once jade is carved, it loses its natural shape. In the old days, it was used to describe scholars who became officials and lost their original ambitions.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dà pú bù wán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

daai6 pok3 bat1 yun4

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