| 无私 | wú sī | selfless / unselfish / disinterested / altruistic |   |
| 大公无私 | dà gōng wú sī | selfless / impartial | |
| 舍己 | shě jǐ | selfless / self-sacrifice (to help others) / self-renunciation / altruism | |
| 公而忘私 | gōng ér wàng sī | for the common good and forgetting personal interests (idiom) / to behave altruistically / selfless | |
| 一尘不染 | yī chén bù rǎn | untainted by even a speck of dust (idiom) / selfless and incorruptible / spotless | |
| 活雷锋 | huó Léi Fēng | selfless model citizen, just like Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋[Lei2 Feng1] | |
| 铁面 | tiě miàn | iron mask (as defensive armor) / fig. upright and selfless person | |
| 克己奉公 | kè jǐ fèng gōng | self-restraint and devotion to public duties (idiom) / selfless dedication / to serve the public interest wholeheartedly | |
| 奉公克己 | fèng gōng kè jǐ | self-restraint and devotion to public duties (idiom) / selfless dedication / to serve the public interest wholeheartedly | |
| 舍己为公 | shě jǐ wèi gōng | to give up one's private interests for the public good (idiom) / to behave altruistically / selfless and public spirited | |
| 介之推 | Jiè Zhī tuī | Jie Zhitui (7th century BC), legendary selfless subject of Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公|晋文公[Jin4 Wen2 gong1], in whose honor the Qingming festival 清明[Qing1 ming2] (Pure brightness or tomb-sweeping festival) is said to have been initiated | |
