手不釋卷 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 手不释卷 shǒubùshìjuàn ㄕㄡˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄕˋ ㄐㄩㄢˋ lit. always with a book in hand (idiom) fig. (of a student or scholar) diligent and hardworking Character by character 手(shǒu)hand 不(bù)no 釋(shì)explain 卷(juàn)scroll A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0