君子之交淡如水

1. • a gentleman's friendship, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 庄子 zhuāngzǐ)

Character by character

• 君(jūn)monarch
• 子(zǐ)son
• 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de)
• 交(jiāo)hand over
• 淡(dàn)insipid
• 如(rú)as
• 水(shuǐ)surname Shui