clean-living and honest (idiom); to avoid immorality; to shun evil influence; to mind one's own business and keep out of trouble; to keep one's hands clean
trad. 潔身自好
Also written 潔身自好【jié shēn zì hào】
Characters in this word
4洁
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clean
- Pinyin
- jié
- Traditional
- 潔
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 16678 of 2500
身
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body, life, oneself, personally, one's morality and conduct, the main part of a structure or body, pregnant, classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset, Kangxi radical 158
- Pinyin
- shēn
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 3095 of 2500
自
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(bound form) self; oneself, from; since, naturally; as a matter of course
- Pinyin
- zì
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1586 of 2500
好
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good, appropriate; proper, all right!, (before a verb) easy to, (before a verb) good to, (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so, (verb complement indicating completion), (of two people) close; on intimate terms, (after a form of address) hello
- Pinyin
- hǎo
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 11 of 2500