道不拾遗 — Chinese idiom
道不拾遗
dào bù shí yí
Traditional: 道不拾遺
Meaning
- lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street
- fig. honesty prevails throughout society
Character by character
- 道dàomethod, way; path, road
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 拾shíto collect, to pick up, to tidy up; ten (bankers'
- 遗yíto lose; a lost article
Idioms sharing a character
- 一语道破 yī yǔ dào pò
- 仁义道德 rén yì dào dé
- 假道伐虢 jiǎ dào fá Guó
- 分道扬镳 fēn dào yáng biāo
- 口碑载道 kǒu bēi zài dào
- 问道于盲 wèn dào yú máng
- 坐而论道 zuò ér lùn dào
- 天公地道 tiān gōng dì dào
- 天道酬勤 tiān dào chóu qín
- 安贫乐道 ān pín lè dào
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