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Learning Chinese starts with basic single characters, but the next step is combining them into words. To go even further, mastering idioms is the challenge. Here, we offer free resources to help you explore advanced Chinese idioms. Today’s idiom is 「貪官汙吏」, explained below.

The idiom 「貪官汙吏」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.

Corrupt officials.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tān guān yú lì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

taam1 gun1 wu1 lei6

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.