Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「以水濟水」, explained here.
This feature highlights the idiom 「以水濟水」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Use water to flavor the water. It is a metaphor that just following the crowd will do no good.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐ shuǐ jì shuǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi5 seui2 jai3 seui2
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