毛遂自荐
Traditional form:
毛遂自薦
Pinyin (reading):
Máo Suìzìjiàn
Definitions:
- Mao Sui recommends himself (idiom); to offer one's services (in the style of Mao Sui offering his services to king of Chu 楚 of the Warring states)
Characters:
- 毛 - hair, fur, feathers; coarse
- 遂 - to fail; to follow, to comply with
- 自 - self; private, personal; from
- 荐 - to recommend; to recur, to repeat
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