好记性不如烂笔头 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 好記性不如爛筆頭 hǎojìxìngbùrúlànbǐtóu ㄏㄠˇ ㄐㄧˋ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄨˊ ㄌㄢˋ ㄅㄧˇ ㄊㄡˊ the palest ink is better than the best memory (idiom) Character by character 好(hǎo)good 记(jì)record 性(xìng)nature 不(bù)no 如(rú)as 烂(làn)soft 笔(bǐ)writing brush 头(tóu)head A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0