收斂鋒芒 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 收敛锋芒 shōuliǎnfēngmáng ㄕㄡ ㄌㄧㄢˇ ㄈㄥ ㄇㄤˊ to draw in one's claws to show some modesty Character by character 收(shōu)receive 斂(liǎn)hold back 鋒(fēng)point of a spear 芒(máng)awn A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0