道不拾遺
Chinese
direction; way; method direction; way; method; road; path; principle; truth; reason; skill; Tao (of Taoism); a measure word; to say; to speak; to talk |
not; no | pick up; ten (fraud-proof) | to lose; to leave behind | ||
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trad. (道不拾遺) | 道 | 不 | 拾 | 遺 | |
simp. (道不拾遗) | 道 | 不 | 拾 | 遗 |
Pronunciation
Idiom
道不拾遺
- Synonym of 路不拾遺/路不拾遗 (lùbùshíyí, “no one pockets lost property on the road”)
- 有些地方真個道不拾遺,夜不閉戶。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Yǒuxiē dìfāng zhēngè dàobùshíyí, yèbùbìhù. [Pinyin]
- In some places it is literally true that people do not take any articles left by the wayside and that doors are not bolted at night.
有些地方真个道不拾遗,夜不闭户。 [MSC, simp.]
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