shēn​cáng​bù​lù

to hide one's light under a bushel

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