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

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「漿水不交」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Don’t get wet with starch water. It means being an honest official and not taking anything from the people.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiāng shuǐ bù jiāo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jeung1 seui2 bat1 gaau1

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