- official authority used for private interests (idiom); to attain private ends by abusing public position
Characters
- 假 (假): used in 假掰[gei1 bai1]
- 公 (公): public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal)
- 济 (濟): used in place names associated with the Ji River 濟水|济水[Ji3 Shui3]; surname Ji
- 私 (私): personal; private; selfish
Resources
- Wiktionary: 假公济私
- MDBG: 假公济私
- Examples with 假公济私 on Tatoeba
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