- lit. always with a book in hand (idiom)
- fig. (of a student or scholar) diligent and hardworking
Characters
- 手 (手): hand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work; person skilled in certain types of work; personal(ly); convenient; classifier for skill; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- 不 (不): no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 释 (釋): to explain; to release; Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2]); Buddhism
- 卷 (卷): to roll up; roll; classifier for small rolled things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc)
Resources
- Wiktionary: 手不释卷
- MDBG: 手不释卷
- Examples with 手不释卷 on Tatoeba
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