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We aim to support your Chinese studies with free resources. In this series, we explore idioms and proverbs, full of meaning. Today’s feature is 「鬻良雜苦」, explained below.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「鬻良雜苦」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

It refers to the practice of fraud when selling goods, and passing inferior goods off as good ones.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yù liáng zá kǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yuk6 leung4 jaap6 fu2

With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.