A man of many talents and few knowledge

A man of many talents and few knowledge

It is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is C á IDU ō sh í Gu ǎ, which means high talent but little knowledge. It comes from the biography of Ji Kang in the annals of the Three Kingdoms.

The origin of Idioms

In the biography of Ji Kang in the annals of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Zhi, notes Pei Songzhi: "I have many talents and few knowledge, so I can hardly escape from this world."

Idiom usage

Ji Kang in the Western Jin Dynasty had many talents and was good at hiding people, so he met the disaster of heel meeting. Song Sushi's Xie Xuanyu Zazi

Idiom story

During the Three Kingdoms period, Ji Kang, one of the Seven Sages of the bamboo grove, traveled with sun Deng. When sun Deng asked him about his intention, Ji Kang did not answer. After playing together for three years, Ji Kang finally asked sun Deng why he didn't speak. Sun Deng said that he was talented and insightful, leaving a message to him: "therefore, the use of light depends on the salary, so to protect its glory; the use of talent depends on the truth, so the whole year."