操之過急 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 操之过急 cāozhīguòjí ㄘㄠ ㄓ ㄍㄨㄛˋ ㄐㄧˊ to act with undue haste (idiom) eager and impatient overhasty Character by character 操(cāo)grasp 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 過(guò)cross 急(jí)urgent A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0