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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「載沉載浮」 and its explanation.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「載沉載浮」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Floating up and down in the water.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zǎi chén zǎi fú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

joi3 cham4 joi3 fau4

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