路不拾遗 — Chinese idiom
路不拾遗
lù bù shí yí
Traditional: 路不拾遺
Meaning
- lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street
- fig. honesty prevails throughout society
Character by character
- 路lùroad, path, street; journey
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 拾shíto collect, to pick up, to tidy up; ten (bankers'
- 遗yíto lose; a lost article
Idioms sharing a character
- 一路货色 yī lù huò sè
- 一路顺风 yī lù shùn fēng
- 冤家路窄 yuān jiā lù zhǎi
- 半路出家 bàn lù chū jiā
- 天雨路滑 tiān yù lù huá
- 峰回路转 fēng huí lù zhuǎn
- 广开言路 guǎng kāi yán lù
- 必经之路 bì jīng zhī lù
- 投石问路 tóu shí wèn lù
- 死路一条 sǐ lù yī tiáo
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