功不可没 — Chinese idiom
功不可没
gōng bù kě mò
Traditional: 功不可沒
Meaning
- one's contributions cannot go unnoticed
Character by character
- 功gōngachievement, good work; merit; service
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 可kěmay, can, -able; possibly
- 没mònot, none, gone; to bury; to sink, to drown
Idioms sharing a character
- 事倍功半 shì bèi gōng bàn
- 事半功倍 shì bàn gōng bèi
- 前功尽弃 qián gōng jìn qì
- 功名利禄 gōng míng lì lù
- 功完行满 gōng wán xíng mǎn
- 功德圆满 gōng dé yuán mǎn
- 功德无量 gōng dé wú liàng
- 功成不居 gōng chéng bù jū
- 功成名就 gōng chéng míng jiù
- 功败垂成 gōng bài chuí chéng
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