見義勇為 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 见义勇为 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. jiànyìyǒngwéi ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄧˋ ㄩㄥˇ ㄨㄟˊ (usu. of a passer-by who comes across a critical situation) to step in and help to take brave or selfless action idiom, from the Analects Character by character 見(jiàn)see 義(yì)justice 勇(yǒng)brave 為(wéi)as (in the capacity of) 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