{"path":"/entry/76430","title":"目无全牛 / 目無全牛 (mù wú quán niú) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"目无全牛 / 目無全牛 (mù wú quán niú): to see the ox already cut up into joints (idiom) · extremely skilled. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":76430,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["目无全牛"],"TRADITIONAL":["目無全牛"]}},"phonetic":"mù wú quán niú","phoneticKey":"mu4 wu2 quan2 niu2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to see the ox already cut up into joints ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"extremely skilled","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"able to see through the problem at one glance","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB","ADVERB","ADJECTIVE"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"there are no whole cows in sight","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From Zhuangzi, chapter 3 (《莊子·養生主》)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"始臣之解牛之时，所见无非全牛者。三年之后，未尝见全牛也。","traditional":"始臣之解牛之時，所見無非全牛者。三年之後，未嘗見全牛也。"},"phonetic":"Shǐ chén zhī jiě niú zhī shí, suǒjiàn wú fēi quán niú zhě. Sān nián zhīhòu, wèicháng jiàn quán niú yě.","english":"When I first began cutting up oxen, all I could see was the ox itself. After three years I no longer saw the whole ox.","ref":"Zhuangzi, circa 3ʳᵈ – 2ⁿᵈ centuries BCE, translation from The Complete Works Of Chuang Tzu (2013), by Burton Watson"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}