问心无愧

問心無愧

wènxīn-wúkuì

idiom #23,203

Meanings

1 to have a clear conscience
2 to feel no guilt upon self-examination
3 to be able to look oneself in the eye

Characters

to ask; to question

heart; conscience

no; without; none

shame; guilt; to feel ashamed

Examples

只要问心无愧，别人怎么说都不重要。

Zhǐyào wènxīn-wúkuì, biérén zěnme shuō dōu bù zhòngyào.

As long as you have a clear conscience, it doesn't matter what others say.

他做了该做的事，问心无愧地离开了。

Tā zuò le gāi zuò de shì, wènxīn-wúkuì de líkāi le.

He did what he had to do and left with a clear conscience.

Tips

memory

问心无愧 literally means: ask (问) your heart (心), no (无) shame (愧). The image is of interrogating your own conscience and finding nothing to be ashamed of - an internal moral audit with a clean result.

Stroke Order

问 wèn

心 xīn

无 wú

愧 kuì