折节下贤 (折節下賢) zhéjiéxiàxián
zhéjiéxiàxián
set phrase
to be humble in front of sages
Domain: Idiom 成语
Notes: (Mathews 1931 '折節下賢', p. 32)
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 《越王句踐世家》 House of King Goujian of Yue Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 1
- 卷一百八十六 列傳第一百十一 周王鄧陳齊趙二楊顧 Volume 186 Biographies 111: Zhou, Wang, Deng, Cheng, Qi, Zhao, two Yangs, Gu New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 1