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业荒于嬉

yè huāng yú xī

4-character word Traditional 業荒於嬉

What 业荒于嬉 means

1. to be distracted from one's work and fail to achieve results (idiom)

The characters in 业荒于嬉

• 业yèline of business; industry; occupation
• 荒huāngdesolate; shortage; scarce
• 于yúto go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particle
• 嬉xī(literary) to amuse oneself; to play; to have fun

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