勤能补拙 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 勤能補拙 qínnéngbǔzhuō ㄑㄧㄣˊ ㄋㄥˊ ㄅㄨˇ ㄓㄨㄛ 男 女 hard work can make up for lack of natural talent idiom Character by character 勤(qín)work 能(néng)can 补(bǔ)make up for 拙(zhuō)awkward 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