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犯而不校
fàn'ér​bù​jiào

to not retaliate

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
犯而不校 fàn'ér​bù​jiào
to not retaliate
To submit to an insult or offense without seeking revenge or arguing; originally from the "Analects", describing one who does not take offense when others treat them poorly.

Frequency

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0.007 per million

Cross-References

Variant of

  • 犯而勿校 fàn'ér​wù​jiào

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)