言必信,行必果
yán bì xìn , xíng bì guǒ
Pinyin
Definition
言必信,行必果
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- one must be a man of his word and resolute in his work (proverb)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 letter
- 2 mail
- 3 classifier: 封 fēng
- 4 to trust
- 5 to believe
- 6 to profess faith in
- 7 truthful
- 8 confidence
- 9 trust
- 10 at will
- 11 at random
- 1 information
- 2 news
- 3 message
- 1 if
- 2 in case
- 3 in the event that
- 1 certainly
- 2 must
- 3 will
- 4 necessarily
- 1 to have to
- 2 must
- 3 compulsory
- 4 necessarily
Idioms (20)
一不做,二不休
- 1 don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end
- 2 Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens.
- 3 in for a penny, in for a pound
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南,一个地北
- 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一传十,十传百
- 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
- 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一则以喜,一则以忧
- 1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)