择善固执 — Chinese idiom
择善固执
zé shàn gù zhí
Traditional: 擇善固執
Meaning
- to choose what is good and hold fast to it
Character by character
- 择zéto select, to choose
- 善shàngood, virtuous, charitable, kind
- 固gùto solidify; strength
- 执zhíto execute; to grasp, to hold; to keep; to sieze,
Idioms sharing a character
- 口无择言 kǒu wú zé yán
- 择善而从 zé shàn ér cóng
- 饥不择食 jī bù zé shí
- 乏善可陈 fá shàn kě chén
- 兼善天下 jiān shàn tiān xià
- 劝善惩恶 quàn shàn chéng è
- 善始善终 shàn shǐ shàn zhōng
- 善有善报 shàn yǒu shàn bào
- 善罢甘休 shàn bà gān xiū
- 善自为谋 shàn zì wéi móu
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