Word information
Simplified学海无涯
Traditional學海無涯
Pinyinxué hǎi wú yá
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Chinese word dictionary
学海无涯
xué hǎi wú yá · sea of learning, no horizon (idiom); no limits to what one still has to learn; ars longa, vita brevis
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