报本反始 — Chinese idiom
报本反始
bào běn fǎn shǐ
Traditional: 報本反始
Meaning
- ensure that you pay debts of gratitude
Character by character
- 报bàoto announce, to report; newspaper; payback, reveng
- 本běnroot, origin, source; basis
- 反fǎnreverse, opposite; contrary, anti-
- 始shǐto begin, to start; beginning
Idioms sharing a character
- 以德报怨 yǐ dé bào yuàn
- 以身报国 yǐ shēn bào guó
- 善有善报 shàn yǒu shàn bào
- 报仇雪耻 bào chóu xuě chǐ
- 报仇雪恨 bào chóu xuě hèn
- 报应不爽 bào yìng bù shuǎng
- 官报私仇 guān bào sī chóu
- 恩将仇报 ēn jiāng chóu bào
- 恶有恶报 è yǒu è bào
- 感恩图报 gǎn ēn tú bào
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