獻醜不如藏拙
简 献丑不如藏拙 · 繁 獻醜不如藏拙Meanings
- 'silence is golden'; to keep one's weakness unexposed
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: xian4 chou3 bu4 ru2 cang2 zhuo3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
hin3 cau2 bat1 jyu4 cong4 zyut3 · hin3 cau2 bat1 jyu4 cong4 zyut6
Cantonese word readings for 獻醜不如藏拙. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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