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名垂青史

míng chuí qīng shǐ

4-character word

What 名垂青史 means

1. lit. reputation will go down in history (idiom); fig. achievements will earn eternal glory

The characters in 名垂青史

• 名míngname; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners)
• 垂chuíto hang (down); droop; dangle
• 青qīnggreen; blue; black
• 史shǐhistory; annals; title of an official historian in ancient China

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