有始無終 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 有始无终 yǒushǐwúzhōng ㄧㄡˇ ㄕˇ ㄨˊ ㄓㄨㄥ to start but not finish (idiom) to fail to carry things through lack of sticking power short attention span Character by character 有(yǒu)have 始(shǐ)begin 無(wú)not to have 終(zhōng)end A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0