- clean-living and honest (idiom); to avoid immorality
- to shun evil influence
- to mind one's own business and keep out of trouble
- to keep one's hands clean
Characters
- 洁 (潔): clean
- 身 (身): body; life; oneself; personally; one's morality and conduct; the main part of a structure or body; pregnant; classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset; Kangxi radical 158
- 自 (自): (bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
- 好 (好): good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello
Resources
- Wiktionary: 洁身自好
- MDBG: 洁身自好
- Examples with 洁身自好 on Tatoeba
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