can't see the wood for the trees
trad. 只見樹木，不見森林
Also written 只見樹木，不見森林【zhǐ jiàn shù mù , bù jiàn sēn lín】
Characters in this word
7只
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
variant of 隻|只[zhi1]
- Pinyin
- zhī
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 177 of 2500
见
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to see, to meet, to appear (to be sth), to interview, opinion, view
- Pinyin
- jiàn
- Traditional
- 見
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 278 of 2500
树
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tree, CL:棵[ke1], to cultivate, to set up
- Pinyin
- shù
- Traditional
- 樹
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 2862 of 2500
木
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surname Mu
- Pinyin
- Mù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 10998 of 2500
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
森
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Mori (Japanese surname)
- Pinyin
- Sēn
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 3251 of 2500
林
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surname Lin, Japanese surname Hayashi
- Pinyin
- Lín
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 4039 of 2500