蓄鬚明志 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 蓄须明志 xùxūmíngzhì ㄒㄩˋ ㄒㄩ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄓˋ to grow a beard as a symbol of one's determination (as Mei Lanfang 梅兰芳 méilánfāng growing a beard and refusing to perform for the Japanese) Character by character 蓄(xù)store up 鬚(xū)beard 明(míng)Ming Dynasty 志(zhì)aspiration A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0