功高不赏 — Chinese idiom
功高不赏
gōng gāo bù shǎng
Traditional: 功高不賞
Meaning
- high merit that one can never repay ; invaluable achievements
Character by character
- 功gōngachievement, good work; merit; service
- 高gāotall, lofty; high, elevated
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 赏shǎngreward; to appreciate; to bestow, to grant
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
- 功不可没 gōng bù kě mò
- 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
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