{"path":"/entry/99379","title":"语焉不详 / 語焉不詳 (yǔ yān bù xiáng) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"语焉不详 / 語焉不詳 (yǔ yān bù xiáng): to mention something without elaborating (idiom) · not giving details. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":99379,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["语焉不详"],"TRADITIONAL":["語焉不詳"]}},"phonetic":"yǔ yān bù xiáng","phoneticKey":"yu3 yan1 bu4 xiang2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to mention something without elaborating ","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":"not giving details","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB","ADVERB"],"frequency":93739,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Coined by Han Yu in On the Origin of Tao","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"荀与扬也，择焉而不精，语焉而不详。","traditional":"荀與揚也，擇焉而不精，語焉而不詳。"},"phonetic":"Xún yǔ Yáng yě, zé yān ér bù jīng, yǔ yān ér bùxiáng.","english":"Then followed the heterodox schools of Hsün and Yang, wherein much that was essential was passed over, while the criterion was vaguely formulated.","ref":"c. early 9th century, Han Yu (韓愈),《原道》, translated into English as True Faith of a Confucianist by Herbert A. Giles"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}