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食古不化

shí gǔ bù huà

Definitions

  • •to swallow ancient learning without digesting it (idiom)
  • •to be pedantic without having a mastery of one's subject

Child Words of 食古不化

化
huà
食
shí
古
gǔ
不
bù
食
sì