to conceal one's strengths and bide one's time (idiom); to hide one's light under a bushel
trad. 韜光養晦
Also written 韜光養晦【tāo guāng yǎng huì】
Characters in this word
4韬
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bow case or scabbard, to hide, military strategy
- Pinyin
- tāo
- Traditional
- 韜
- Strokes
- 14
光
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light; ray (CL:道[dao4]), bright; shiny, only; merely, used up; finished, to leave (a part of the body) uncovered
- Pinyin
- guāng
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1998 of 2500
养
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to raise (animals), to bring up (children), to keep (pets), to support, to give birth
- Pinyin
- yǎng
- Traditional
- 養
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 3496 of 2500
晦
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(bound form) last day of a lunar month, (bound form) dark; gloomy, (literary) night
- Pinyin
- huì
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 18542 of 2500