不打不成器 Save Sign in to save words bùdǎbùchéngqì ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄚˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄔㄥˊ ㄑㄧˋ spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom) Character by character 不(bù)no 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings 不(bù)no 成(chéng)surname Cheng 器(qì)device A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0