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水浅养不住大鱼

shuǐ qiǎn yǎng bù zhù dà yú

7-character word Traditional 水淺養不住大魚

What 水浅养不住大鱼 means

1. lit. shallow waters cannot harbor big fish (idiom)
2. fig. ambitious, talented people cannot reach their full potential in a small organization

The characters in 水浅养不住大鱼

• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
• 浅qiǎnshallow; light (color)
• 养yǎngto raise (animals); to bring up (children); to keep (pets)
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 住zhùto live; to reside; to stay; to stop; to cease…
• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 鱼yúfish; used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鲍鱼