公而忘私 — Chinese idiom
公而忘私
gōng ér wàng sī
Meaning
- for the common good and forgetting personal interests ; to behave altruistically
- selfless
Character by character
- 公gōngfair, equitable; public; duke
- 而érand, and then, and yet; but
- 忘wàngto forget, to miss, to neglect, to overlook
- 私sīpersonal, private, secret; selfish
Idioms sharing a character
- 假公济私 jiǎ gōng jì sī
- 克己奉公 kè jǐ fèng gōng
- 公之于世 gōng zhī yú shì
- 公之于众 gōng zhī yú zhòng
- 公事公办 gōng shì gōng bàn
- 公诸同好 gōng zhū tóng hào
- 公诸于世 gōng zhū yú shì
- 因公殉职 yīn gōng xùn zhí
- 天公作美 tiān gōng zuò měi
- 天公地道 tiān gōng dì dào
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