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This introduction highlights the idiom 「行濁言清」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Clear: clear and noble; turbid: turbid, referring to low. The first one says innocent and good things, the second one says dirty and bad things. Used to describe a person whose words and actions are inconsistent.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
háng zhuó yán qīng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
haang4/hong4/hang4 juk6 yin4 ching1
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