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大公无私

dà gōng wú sī

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 大公無私

大公无私 (dà gōng wú sī) means "selfless; impartial". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 大公无私 means

1. selfless
2. impartial

The characters in 大公无私

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 公gōngpublic; collectively owned; common
• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 私sīpersonal; private; selfish

Example sentences

• 我对她的大公无私怀有敬意。
  Wǒ duì tā de dàgōngwúsī huáiyǒu jìngyì.
  I respect her selflessness.
• 他总在别人面前装出大公无私的样子，但依我看，他只不过是个没有主见的家伙。
  Tā zǒng zài biéren miànqián zhuāngchū dàgōngwúsī de yàngzi, dàn yīwǒkàn, tā zhǐbuguò shì gè méiyǒu zhǔjiàn de jiāhuo.
  He puts on a show of being impartial and unbiased, but I think he's just a guy with no opinion of his own.

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