Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「濯足濯纓」 and how it’s used.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「濯足濯纓」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
If the water is clear, wash your hatband; if the water is turbid, wash your feet. Later it is used to illustrate that whether a person is good or bad is determined by himself.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhuó zú zhuó yīng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jok6 juk1 jok6 ying1
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