踌躇满志 — Chinese idiom
踌躇满志
chóu chú mǎn zhì
Traditional: 躊躇滿志
Meaning
- enormously proud of one's success ; smug
- complacent
Character by character
- 踌chóuto falter, to hesitate; smug, self-satisfied
- 躇chúto hesitate, to falter; undecided
- 满mǎnto fill; full, packed; satisfied
- 志zhìdetermination, will; mark, sign; to record, to wri
Idioms sharing a character
- 功完行满 gōng wán xíng mǎn
- 功德圆满 gōng dé yuán mǎn
- 名满天下 míng mǎn tiān xià
- 心满意足 xīn mǎn yì zú
- 志得意满 zhì dé yì mǎn
- 恶贯满盈 è guàn mǎn yíng
- 泪流满面 lèi liú mǎn miàn
- 满不在乎 mǎn bù zài hu
- 满坑满谷 mǎn kēng mǎn gǔ
- 满城风雨 mǎn chéng fēng yǔ
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