If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it (idiom). fig. If you do something bad, people will inevitably hear about it.
trad. 若要人不知，除非己莫為
Also written 若要人不知，除非己莫為【ruò yào rén bù zhī , chú fēi jǐ mò wéi】
Characters in this word
10若
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used in 般若[bo1 re3], used in 蘭若|兰若[lan2 re3]
- Pinyin
- rě
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 913 of 2500
要
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(bound form) to demand; to coerce
- Pinyin
- yāo
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 24 of 2500
人
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person; people, CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- Pinyin
- rén
- Strokes
- 2
- Frequency
- 30 of 2500
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
知
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to know, to be aware
- Pinyin
- zhī
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 3344 of 2500
除
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to get rid of, to remove, to exclude, to eliminate, to wipe out, to divide, except, not including
- Pinyin
- chú
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 7723 of 2500
非
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abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa
- Pinyin
- Fēi
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 2078 of 2500
己
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self, oneself, sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1], sixth in order, letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc, hexa
- Pinyin
- jǐ
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 7684 of 2500
莫
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surname Mo
- Pinyin
- Mò
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 2902 of 2500
为
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as (in the capacity of), to take sth as, to act as, to serve as, to behave as, to become, to be, to do, by (in the passive voice)
- Pinyin
- wéi
- Traditional
- 為
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 129 of 2500