刚正不阿

Traditional: 剛正不阿

gāng zhèng bù ē

Dictionary entry

upright and plainspoken

What does 刚正不阿 mean?

刚正不阿 (gāng zhèng bù ē) has the following dictionary meaning.

1upright and plainspoken

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刚gāng(literary) hard; firm; strong · exactly; precisely 正zhēngfirst month of the lunar year 不bùno; not so · (bound form) not; un-阿āprefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity · (bound form) abbreviation for country names beginning with 阿, e.g. 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4] "Afghanistan"

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刚正不阿

gāng zhèng bù ē

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