Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「涇清渭濁」.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「涇清渭濁」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
The Jing River is clear, while the Wei River is turbid. It is a metaphor that the quality of people’s character and the good and bad of things are obvious.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jīng qīng wèi zhuó
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ging1 ching1 wai6 juk6
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