不打不成才 Save Create a free account to save words bùdǎbùchéngcái ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄚˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄔㄥˊ ㄘㄞˊ 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)succeed 才(cái)ability Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0