涓滴归公 — Chinese idiom
涓滴归公
juān dī guī gōng
Traditional: 涓滴歸公
Meaning
- every drop returns to the public good ; not one penny is misused
Character by character
- 涓juānbrook, stream; pure; to select
- 滴dīto drip; a drop of water
- 归guīto return, to go back; to return to, to revert
- 公gōngfair, equitable; public; duke
Idioms sharing a character
- 涓埃之力 juān āi zhī lì
- 垂涎欲滴 chuí xián yù dī
- 水滴石穿 shuǐ dī shí chuān
- 滴水石穿 dī shuǐ shí chuān
- 滴水穿石 dī shuǐ chuān shí
- 馋涎欲滴 chán xián yù dī
- 不醉不归 bù zuì bù guī
- 命归黄泉 mìng guī Huáng quán
- 夜不归宿 yè bù guī sù
- 完璧归赵 wán bì guī Zhào
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.