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
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- 卷六十八 列傳第五十六: 豆盧寧 楊紹 王雅 韓雄 賀若敦 Volume 68 Biographies 56: Dou Luning, Yang Shao, Wang Ya, Han Xiong, He Ruodun History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 1
- 卷九十四上 匈奴傳 Volume 94a: Traditions of the Xiongnu 1 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 1
- 卷二百一十 列傳第九十七: 外夷三 緬國 占城 暹國 爪哇 瑠求 三嶼 馬八兒等國 Volume 210 Biographies 97: Foreign Peoples 3 - Myanmar, Champa, Siam, Java, Liuqiu, Batanes, Maba'erdengguo History of Yuan 元史 — count: 1
- 第四十三回 Chapter 43 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
- 宙合第十一 Chapter 11: Zhou He Guanzi 管子 — count: 1
- 卷53 列傳第18 達奚長儒 賀婁子幹 史萬歲 劉方 Volume 53 Biographies 18: Daxi Zhangru, Helou Zigan, Shi Wansui, Liu Fang Book of Sui 隋書 — 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
- 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
- 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