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四体不勤，五谷不分

sì tǐ bù qín , wǔ gǔ bù fēn

9-character word Traditional 四體不勤，五穀不分

What 四体不勤，五谷不分 means

1. never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite

The characters in 四体不勤，五谷不分

• 四sìfour; 4
• 体tǐbody; form; style
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 勤qíndiligent; industrious; hardworking; frequent; regular; constant; (bound form) work; duty…
• 五wǔfive; 5
• 谷gǔgrain; corn
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 分fēnto divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad)