水淺養不住大魚 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 水浅养不住大鱼 shuǐqiǎnyǎngbùzhùdàyú ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄑㄧㄢˇ ㄧㄤˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄓㄨˋ ㄉㄚˋ ㄩˊ lit. shallow waters cannot harbor big fish (idiom) fig. ambitious, talented people cannot reach their full potential in a small organization Character by character 水(shuǐ)surname Shui 淺(qiǎn)shallow 養(yǎng)raise 不(bù)no 住(zhù)live 大(dà)big 魚(yú)surname Yu A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0