好高騖遠

好
好
高
高
骛
騖
远
遠
to bite off more than one can chew (idiom) / to aim too high

Characters and words in 好高騖遠

好
hǎo = h + ao3
good / well / proper / good to / easy to / very / so / (suffix indicating completion or readiness) / (of two people) close / on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello
好 = 女 + 子 : Hamlet visits the wishing well in the aorta and wishes for a good child. A picosecond later, an egg appears, cracks open and Bessie Coleman jumps out.
好
hào = h + ao4
to be fond of / to have a tendency to / to be prone to
好
hǎo = h + ao3
good / appropriate; proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close; on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello
好
hào = h + ao4
to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
高
ga̅o = g + ao1
surname Gao
高 = 亠 + 冋 + 口 : A skyscraper.
高 = 亠 + 冋 + 口 : Just in front of the aorta, a huge skyscraper has been erected. It's an important building, so there's a control checkpoint at the entrance, and Guy Fawkes has been hired to stand guard. To make him look more dangerous, he wears a beret. However there's no-one to check, so Guy Fawkes is bored and eats a mandarin.
高
ga̅o = g + ao1
high / tall / above average / loud / your (honorific)
高 = 亠 + 冋 + 口 : A skyscraper.
高 = 亠 + 冋 + 口 : Just in front of the aorta, a huge skyscraper has been erected. It's an important building, so there's a control checkpoint at the entrance, and Guy Fawkes has been hired to stand guard. To make him look more dangerous, he wears a beret. However there's no-one to check, so Guy Fawkes is bored and eats a mandarin.
骛
騖
wù = w + Ø4
(bound form) to rush about / to strive for
远
遠
yuǎn = yu + an3
far / distant / remote / (intensifier in a comparison) by far / much (lower etc)
远 = 元 + 辶 : In anthill Yu the Great spent already hundreds of coins on a claw crane, because she wants these gladiator sandals so badly. She tries again and again, but she always moves the claw too far.
远
遠
yuàn = yu + an4
to distance oneself from (classical)

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