明哲保身 Save Sign in to save words míngzhébǎoshēn ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄓㄜˊ ㄅㄠˇ ㄕㄣ a wise man looks after his own hide (idiom) to put one's own safety before matters of principle Character by character 明(míng)Ming Dynasty 哲(zhé)wise 保(bǎo)Bulgaria 身(shēn)body A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0