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甘井先ず竭く

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
甘 井 先 竭
かん
Grade: S 		せい
Grade: 4 		ま
Grade: 1 		つ
Hyōgaiji

Etymology edit

Calque of Literary Chinese 甘井先竭 (gānjǐngxiānjié), from 莊子/山木. Literally "a sweet well is the first to be exhausted", because the sweet well has many users.[1]

Proverb edit

甘(かん)井(せい)先(ま)ず竭(つ)く • (kansei mazu tsuku) 

  1. highly-skilled men are the first to be exhausted

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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