4 characters Idiom and proverb 11 948

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Learn about the idiom 「泥蟠不滓」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Coiled in the mud without being polluted. It is a metaphor for a person who is unsuccessful but has not lost his integrity.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

ní pán bù zǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

nai4 pun4 bat1 ji2

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