- to conceal one's strengths and bide one's time (idiom)
- to hide one's light under a bushel
Characters
- 韬 (韜): bow case or scabbard; to hide; military strategy
- 光 (光): light; ray (CL:道[dao4]); bright; shiny; only; merely; used up; finished; to leave (a part of the body) uncovered
- 养 (養): to raise (animals); to bring up (children); to keep (pets); to support; to give birth
- 晦 (晦): (bound form) last day of a lunar month; (bound form) dark; gloomy; (literary) night
Resources
- Wiktionary: 韬光养晦
- MDBG: 韬光养晦
- Examples with 韬光养晦 on Tatoeba
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