- to be modestto keep one's talents or virtues hidden; to not be given to boasting or showing off
- 不 adverbnotNegative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings
- 露 verbto reveal; to showto show; to reveal; to expose; to let something be seen (often pronounced loù in colloquial speech)