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  1. lit. don't tie your shoelaces in a melon patch, and don't adjust your hat under a plum tree (idiom); fig. don't do anything that might arouse suspicion; innocent acts may be misconstrued

    trad. 瓜田不納履,李下不整冠

Also written 瓜田不納履,李下不整冠【guā tián bù nà lǚ , lǐ xià bù zhěng guān】

Characters in this word

9
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

down, downwards, below, lower, later, next (week etc), second (of two parts), to decline, to go down, to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc), measure word to show the frequency of an action

Pinyin
xià
Strokes
3
Frequency
184 of 2500
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(bound form) whole; complete; entire; (before a measure word) whole; (before or after number + measure word) exactly, (bound form) in good order; tidy; neat, (bound form) to put in order; to straighten, (bound form) to repair; to mend; to renovate, (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb, (dialect) to tinker with; to do sth to

Pinyin
zhěng
Strokes
16
Frequency
7111 of 2500