琴劍飄零 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 琴剑飘零 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 劍(jiàn)double-edged sword 飄(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