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不显山不露水
bù xiǎn shān bù lù shuǐ
What 不显山不露水 means
- lit. to not show the mountain and to not reveal the water (idiom); fig. to hide the key facts
The characters in 不显山不露水
- 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 显xiǎnto make visible; to reveal; prominent
- 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
- 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 露lùdew; syrup; nectar
- 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
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