上善若水 Save Create a free account to save words shàngshànruòshuǐ ㄕㄤˋ ㄕㄢˋ ㄖㄨㄛˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ 男 女 the ideal is to be like water (which benefits all living things and does not struggle against them) (quotation from the "Book of Dao" 道德经 dàodéjīng) Character by character 上(shàng)up 善(shàn)good 若(ruò)like 水(shuǐ)water Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0