完璧归赵 — Chinese idiom
完璧归赵
wán bì guī Zhào
Traditional: 完璧歸趙
Meaning
- lit. to return the jade annulus to Zhao ; fig. to return something intact to its rightful owner
Character by character
- 完wánto complete, to finish, to settle; whole
- 璧bìa jade annulus
- 归guīto return, to go back; to return to, to revert
- 赵Zhàoancient state; surname
Idioms sharing a character
- 功完行满 gōng wán xíng mǎn
- 完事大吉 wán shì dà jí
- 臻于完善 zhēn yú wán shàn
- 体无完肤 tǐ wú wán fū
- 中西合璧 Zhōng Xī hé bì
- 怀璧其罪 huái bì qí zuì
- 珠流璧转 zhū liú bì zhuǎn
- 珠联璧合 zhū lián bì hé
- 不醉不归 bù zuì bù guī
- 命归黄泉 mìng guī Huáng quán
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