拙

awkward / clumsy / dull / inelegant / (polite) my / Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]

to go out / to come out / to occur / to produce / to go beyond / to rise / to put forth / to happen / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)

clumsy / botched

to overreach oneself / to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face

my unworthy manuscript (humble expr.) / my humble writing

variant of 心拙口笨[xin1 zhuo1 kou3 ben4]

dull-witted and tongue-tied

clumsy and stupid

lit. clumsy mouth and broken tongue (idiom); awkward speaker

to be unable to express oneself clearly (idiom)

to remain honest and poor

the unvarnished truth is better than a cunning ruse (idiom) / honesty is the best policy

see 弄巧成拙[nong4 qiao3 cheng2 zhuo1]