功成不居
gōng​chéng​bù​jū

to claim no credit for achievement

  • created sense approved 功成不居 · gōng​chéng​bù​jū · to claim no credit for achievement — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    功成不居

    gōng​chéng​bù​jū

    to claim no credit for achievement

    to not claim personal credit for one's achievements or services; originally used in the [[老子|老子|lao3 zi3]] to describe acting in harmony with nature without possessiveness.

    功 (literal) → 功 · gōng · achievement 成 (literal) → 成 · chéng · to succeed 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 居 (literal) → 居 · jū · to claim

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense