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当之无愧

dāng zhī wú kuì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 當之無愧

当之无愧 (dāng zhī wú kuì) means "fully deserving, without any reservations (idiom); entirely worthy (of a title, honor etc)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 当之无愧 means

1. fully deserving, without any reservations (idiom); entirely worthy (of a title, honor etc)

The characters in 当之无愧

• 当dāng(onomatopoeia) dong; ding dong (bell)
• 之zhī(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的; him; her
• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 愧kuìashamed

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