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From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「染絲之變」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.

Introducing the idiom 「染絲之變」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

A metaphor for how originally identical people or things become different due to the influence of the environment.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

rǎn sī zhī biàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yim5 si1 ji1 bin3

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