Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「潛濡默被」, with details below.
The idiom being introduced now is 「潛濡默被」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.
Still subtle. It means that a person’s thoughts or personality are unconsciously infected or influenced and changed.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qián rú mò bèi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chim4 yu4 mak6 pei5/bei6
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