尺有所短，寸有所长
Definitions
- 1. lit. for some things a foot may be too short, and for the other an inch will suffice (proverb)
- 2. fig. everyone has their strong and weak points
- 3. everything has its advantages and disadvantages
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Child Words of 尺有所短，寸有所长
a unit of length
one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gōng chě pǔ]
a Chinese foot
actually
what one is good at
head of an institute etc
to have; there is
somewhat
short
length
chief