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Chinese study involves characters, phrases, and idioms. This resource introduces 「濫官汙吏」 as part of advanced learning. Explanation below.

Learn about the idiom 「濫官汙吏」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Abuse of power: corrupt official. An old term for officials who are greedy for money and accept bribes.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

làn guān yú lì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

laam5 gun1 wu1 lei6

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