美中不足 (měi zhōng bù zú)

Character breakdown

• 美 (Měi) · 9 strokes

  Pictograph of a person with ornamental headwear resembling sheep horns.

• 中 (Zhōng) · 4 strokes

  Depicts a flagpole. There is a circle in the middle marking the center of the flagpole. In older forms of the character, the flagpole has streamers at the top and bottom used to show the direction of…

• 不 (bù) · 4 strokes

  Pictograph of sepals of a flower. The modern meaning "no" is a phonetic loan.

• 足 (jù) · 7 strokes

  Pictograph of a foot (止) attached to a leg.

Usage

这次旅行美中不足的是时间太短。

everything is fine except for one small defect (idiom); the fly in the ointment

zhè cì lǚ xíng měi zhōng bù zú de shì shí jiān tài duǎn 。