要功 yàogōng
yàogōng
noun
to take the credit for somebody's achievement
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: A variant of 邀功 (CC-CEDICT '要功')
Contained in
- 只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针(只要功夫深，鐵杵磨成針) If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle.; cf idiom 磨杵成針|磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle; to persevere in a difficult task
Word is mentioned most frequently in
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- 卷三百三十九 列傳第九十八 蘇轍族孫:元老 Volume 339 Biographies 98: Su Zhezu and grandson: Yuanlao History of Song 宋史 — count: 2
- 卷四十七 班梁列傳 Volume 47: Biographies of Ban, Liang Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 2
- 卷51 韓茂 皮豹子 封敕文 吕羅漢 孔伯恭 Volume 51: Han Mao, Pi Baozi, Feng Chiwen, Lu Luohan, Kong Bogong Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 1
- 卷二十四 魏書二十四 韓崔高孫王傳 Volume 24: Book of Wei 24 - Biographies of Han, Cui, Gao, Sun, and Wang Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 1
- 卷九十二 列傳第六十二 文苑 Volume 92 Biographies 62: Writers Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 1
- 卷二十三 竇融列傳 Volume 23: Biography of Dou Rong Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 1
- 卷二百〇七 列傳第九十五 鄧繼曾 朱淛 楊言 劉安 薛侃 楊名 郭弘化 劉世龍 張選 包節 謝廷荡鄄洍 王與齡 楊思忠 Volume 207 Biographies 95: Deng Jiceng, Zhu Zhe, Yang Yan, Liu An, Xue Kan, Yang Ming, Guo Honghua, Liu Shilong, Zhang Xuan, Bao Jie, Xie Tingdangjuansi, Wang Yuling, Yang Sizhong History of Ming 明史 — count: 1
- 卷九十四上 匈奴傳 Volume 94a: Traditions of the Xiongnu 1 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 1
- 卷七十九 馮奉世傳 Volume 79: Feng Fengshi Book of Han 漢書 — count: 1
- 宙合第十一 Chapter 11: Zhou He Guanzi 管子 — count: 1
Collocations
- 生事要功 (生事要功) 無生事要功之意 — History of Song 宋史, 卷三百三十九 列傳第九十八 蘇轍族孫:元老 Volume 339 Biographies 98: Su Zhezu and grandson: Yuanlao — count: 4
- 笔要功 (筆要功) 莫不投筆要功 — Book of Zhou 周書, 卷27 列傳第19 赫連達 韓果 蔡祐 常善 辛威 厙狄昌 田弘 梁椿 梁臺 宇文測 弟深 Volume 27 Biographies 19: He Lianda; Han Guo; Cai You; Chang Shan; Xin Wei; She Dichang; Tian Hong; Liang Chun; Liang Tai; Yu Wence brother Shen — count: 2
- 不以要功 (不以要功) 籌畫不以要功 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷九十二 列傳第六十二 文苑 Volume 92 Biographies 62: Writers — count: 2