将功补过 — Chinese idiom
将功补过
jiāng gōng bǔ guò
Traditional: 將功補過
Meaning
- to make up for one's faults by doing good deeds
Character by character
- 将jiāngthe future, what will be; ready, prepared; a gener
- 功gōngachievement, good work; merit; service
- 补bǔto fix, to mend, to patch, to restore
- 过guòpass; to go across, to pass through
Idioms sharing a character
- 大厦将倾 dà shà jiāng qīng
- 天兵天将 tiān bīng tiān jiàng
- 将勤补拙 jiāng qín bǔ zhuō
- 将心比心 jiāng xīn bǐ xīn
- 将计就计 jiāng jì jiù jì
- 将错就错 jiāng cuò jiù cuò
- 恩将仇报 ēn jiāng chóu bào
- 慷慨输将 kāng kǎi shū jiāng
- 手下败将 shǒu xià bài jiàng
- 残兵败将 cán bīng bài jiàng
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