问心无愧

問心無愧

wènxīnwúkuì

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 wèn xīn wú kuì, 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, wèn xīn wú kuì 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