益谦亏盈 益謙虧盈
益谦亏盈益謙虧盈 in English
- (idiom) Humility brings benefit, whereas excessive self-satisfaction leads to loss. It expresses the principle that modesty is rewarded and complacency is punished.
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How it used to be written
益
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
谦
These are the forms of 謙, the traditional character: 谦 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢
亏
These are the forms of 虧, the traditional character: 亏 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
盈
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Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).