沽名钓誉 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 沽名釣譽 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. gūmíngdiàoyù ㄍㄨ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄉㄧㄠˋ ㄩˋ to angle for fame (idiom) to fish for compliments Character by character 沽(gū)buy 名(míng)name 钓(diào)fish with a hook and line 誉(yù)praise A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT