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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「薰蕕同器」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Xun: fragrant grass, a metaphor for good things; 蕕: stinking weed, a metaphor for bad things. Vanilla and stinkweed are put together. It is a metaphor that good and evil coexist, and the evil covers up the good.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xūn yóu tóng qì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fan1 yau4 tung4 hei3
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