金无足赤 — Chinese idiom
金无足赤
jīn wú zú chì
Traditional: 金無足赤
Meaning
- not all gold is sufficiently red ; no-one is perfect
Character by character
- 金jīngold, metal; money
- 无wúno, not; lacking, -less
- 足zúfoot; to attain, to satisfy; enough
- 赤chìred, scarlet; blushing; bare, naked
Idioms sharing a character
- 一刻千金 yī kè qiān jīn
- 一字千金 yī zì qiān jīn
- 一掷千金 yī zhì qiān jīn
- 一言千金 yī yán qiān jīn
- 一诺千金 yī nuò qiān jīn
- 千金一掷 qiān jīn yī zhì
- 千金一诺 qiān jīn yī nuò
- 千金难买 qiān jīn nán mǎi
- 固若金汤 gù ruò jīn tāng
- 如金似玉 rú jīn sì yù
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