食古不化

to swallow ancient learning without digesting it (idiom) / to be pedantic without having a mastery of one's subject

Characters and words in 食古不化

to eat / food / animal feed / eclipse

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bag of instant noodles.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) went camping in the space station's bathroom (Ø2). As foodstuffs he brought chewing gum (艮) and instant noodles (食), but he forgot to bring his gas stove, so in front of his tipi (亽) He is eating chewing gums all day.
to feed (a person or animal)
surname Gu
ancient / old / paleo-

= + : Mnemonic symbol: at least on German maps, this character actually resembles a cloister.

Oh no! Gitta Giraffe (gu) found that the golden cross (十) broke off of the cloister (古) in the space station's living room (Ø3)! She skewers a mandarin (口) on top of the cloister so that she can skewer the broken off cross back on to fix it.
no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

= + : Bruno Bear (bu) is setting up a wind wheel (丆) with a voodoo staff (卜) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He also puts a "forbidden" sign (mnemonic symbol for 不) on it, to make clear that it may not (不) be stopped.
variant of 花[hua1]
to make into / to change into / -ization / to ... -ize / to transform / abbr. for 化學|化学[hua4 xue2]

= + : Helga Horse and Rosa Luxemburg conduct an experiment in the ashram's bathroom. Using a transformer, they melt a ladle.

Words with 食古不化

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