to eradicate evil completely (idiom); thorough in rooting out wickedness
trad. 除惡務盡
Also written 除惡務盡【chú è wù jìn】
Characters in this word
4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
恶
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used in 惡心|恶心[e3 xin1]
- Pinyin
- ě
- Traditional
- 惡
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 12185 of 2500
务
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affair, business, matter, to be engaged in, to attend to, by all means
- Pinyin
- wù
- Traditional
- 務
- Strokes
- 5
尽
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to the greatest extent, (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme, to be within the limits of, to give priority to
- Pinyin
- jǐn
- Traditional
- 儘
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 2396 of 2500