琴剑飘零 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 琴劍飄零 qínjiànpiāolíng ㄑㄧㄣˊ ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄆㄧㄠ ㄌㄧㄥˊ floating between zither and sword (idiom) fig. wandering aimlessly with no tenured position Character by character 琴(qín)guqin 古琴 gǔqín 剑(jiàn)double-edged sword 飘(piāo)float 零(líng)zero A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0