明哲保身
Meanings
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- 1.a wise man looks after his own hide (idiom)
- 2.to put one's own safety before matters of principle
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Wiktionary
- 1.to protect or defend oneself with wisdom and sound judgement
- 2.to protect oneself above all other considerations; to place one's own interests at the foremost
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Etymology
From the Classic of Poetry, poem 260 (《詩經·大雅·烝民》)
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT