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
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- 卷四十七 班梁列傳 Volume 47: Biographies of Ban, Liang Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 2
- 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
- 卷十二 魏書十二 崔毛徐何邢鮑司馬傳 Volume 12: Book of Wei 12 - Biographies of Cui, Mao, Xu, He, Xing, and Sima Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 1
- 第四十三回 Chapter 43 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
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- 宙合第十一 Chapter 11: Zhou He Guanzi 管子 — count: 1
- 卷一百一十 列傳第三十五 諸夷蕃將 Volume 110 Biographies 35: Zhu Yi Fan Jiang New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 1
- 卷一百七十 列傳第五十七: 尚文 申屠致遠 雷膺 胡祗遹 王利用 暢師文 張炤 袁裕 張昉 郝彬 高源 楊湜 吳鼎 梁德珪 Volume 170 Biographies 57: Shang Wen, Shen Tuzhiyuan, Lei Ying, Hu ZhiYu, Wang Liyong, Chang Shiwen, Zhang Zhao, Yuan Yu, Zhang Fang, Hao Bin, Gao Yuan, Yang Shi, Wu Ding, Liang Degui History of Yuan 元史 — 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
- 卷三百〇八 列傳第一百九十六 奸臣 胡惟庸 陳瑛 嚴嵩 周延儒 溫體仁 馬士英 Volume 308 Biographies 196: Treacherous Officials - Hu Weiyong, Chen Ying, Yan Song, Zhou Yanru, Wen Tiren, Ma ShiYing History of Ming 明史 — 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