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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「同流合汙」 and its explanation.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「同流合汙」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

流: vulgar; 污: dirty. It means doing bad things with bad people.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tóng liú hé yú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tung4 lau4 hap6 wu1

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