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韬光养晦

tāo guāng yǎng huì

4-character word Traditional 韜光養晦

What 韬光养晦 means

1. to conceal one's strengths and bide one's time (idiom)
2. to hide one's light under a bushel

The characters in 韬光养晦

• 韬tāobow case or scabbard; to hide; military strategy
• 光guānglight; ray; bright; shiny; only; merely
• 养yǎngto raise (animals); to bring up (children); to keep (pets)
• 晦huì(bound form) last day of a lunar month; (bound form) dark; gloomy; (literary) night