董奉
Dǒng Fèng
Pinyin
Definition
董奉
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- Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting that his patients plant apricot trees instead
Character Decomposition
Idioms (10)
不知丁董
- 1 forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom)
- 2 unheeding the lessons of the past
克己奉公
- 1 self-restraint and devotion to public duties (idiom); selfless dedication
- 2 to serve the public interest wholeheartedly
奉公克己
- 1 self-restraint and devotion to public duties (idiom); selfless dedication
- 2 to serve the public interest wholeheartedly
奉为圭臬
- 1 to take as a guiding principle (idiom)
奉若神明
- 1 to honor sb as a God (idiom); to revere
- 2 to worship
- 3 to deify
- 4 to make a holy cow of sth
- 5 to put sb on a pedestal