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玩物丧志

wán wù sàng zhì

4-character word Traditional 玩物喪志

What 玩物丧志 means

1. lit. trifling destroys the will (idiom); infatuation with fine details prevents one making progress
2. excessive attention to trivia saps the will

The characters in 玩物丧志

• 玩wánto play; to have fun; to trifle with
• 物wù(bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself…
• 丧sàngto lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc)…
• 志zhìaspiration; ambition; the will

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