Ready to Learn Chinese?

Discover a new way to study with our interactive demo.

Try our Demo

只见树木不见森林

zhǐ jiàn shù mù bù jiàn sēn lín

Definitions

  • •unable to see the wood for the trees
  • •fig. only able to see isolated details, and not the bigger picture

Child Words of 只见树木不见森林

森
sēn
见
xiàn
森林
sēn lín
树
shù
不
bù
只
zhī
林
lín
见
jiàn
只
zhǐ
木
mù
只见
zhǐ jiàn
不见
bù jiàn
树木
shù mù