slight defect of little importance
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Xi ā NJI è zh ī J í, which means to describe a minor problem that you don't have to care about. It's from Yuanchen, a record of Ming Yi waiting to visit.
The origin of Idioms
Huang Zongxi of the Ming Dynasty wrote in the records of Ming Yi waiting to visit Yuanchen: "if there is no relationship between the survival and death of the country, there will be labor disturbance in all directions, and the people's livelihood will be haggard. Although there are sincere officials, they also think that there is a delicate disease."
Analysis of Idioms
A disease of tinea and scabies
Idiom usage
Used as a subject or object; used in writing.
slight defect of little importance
Helping the past and lagging behind - chān qián luò hòu
one does not consider things outside his position - sī bù chū wèi
A full man knows not a hungry man - bǎo rén bù zhī è rén jī
See the beginning and know the end - jiàn shǐ zhī zhōng