才外流
 cái wài liú
 Pinyin
Definition
才外流
 - 
              - brain drain
 
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 outside
 - 2 in addition
 - 3 foreign
 - 4 external
 
- 1 outside (also pr. [wài mian] for this sense)
 - 2 surface
 - 3 exterior
 - 4 external appearance
 
- 1 ability
 - 2 talent
 - 3 sb of a certain type
 - 4 a capable individual
 - 5 only
 - 6 only then
 - 7 just now
 
- 1 top quality
 - 2 front ranking
 
- 1 lower course of a river
 - 2 low-class
 - 3 mean and lowly
 - 4 vulgar
 - 5 obscene
 
Idioms (20)
不打不成才
  - 1 spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom)
 
不足为外人道
  - 1 no use to tell others
 - 2 let's keep this between ourselves (idiom)
 
九霄云外
  - 1 beyond the topmost clouds (idiom)
 - 2 unimaginably far away
 
人外有人,天外有天
  - 1 in the wider world there are people more talented than oneself (idiom)
 
人往高处走,水往低处流
  - 1 man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom)
 - 2 one should constantly strive to make progress