弄巧成拙 Save Sign in to save words nòngqiǎochéngzhuō ㄋㄨㄥˋ ㄑㄧㄠˇ ㄔㄥˊ ㄓㄨㄛ to overreach oneself to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face Character by character 弄(nòng)do 巧(qiǎo)opportunely 成(chéng)surname Cheng 拙(zhuō)awkward A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0