不以辞害志

don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

old variant of 以[yi3]

old variant of 以[yi3]

abbr. for Israel 以色列[Yi3 se4 lie4]

to use / by means of / according to / in order to / because of / at (a certain date or place)

old variant of 辭|辞[ci2]

to resign / to dismiss / to decline / to take leave / ballad (archaic poetic genre) / variant of 詞|词[ci2]

to do harm to / to cause trouble to / harm / evil / calamity

aspiration / ambition / the will

sign / mark / to record / to write a footnote