Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「欲蓋而彰」—details below.
Here’s the idiom 「欲蓋而彰」, with its definition and practical application described below.
The more you try to cover it up, the more obvious it becomes.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yù gài ér zhāng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yuk6 goi3/koi3 yi4 jeung1
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