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孤芳自赏

gū fāng zì shǎng

4-character word Traditional 孤芳自賞

What 孤芳自赏 means

1. lone flower admiring itself (idiom); narcissism
2. self-love

The characters in 孤芳自赏

• 孤gūlone; lonely
• 芳fāngfragrant
• 自zì(bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
• 赏shǎngto bestow (a reward); to give (to an inferior); to hand down

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