We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「清濁同流」.
Today, we explore the idiom 「清濁同流」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.
Clear water and turbid water flow in the same channel. Describes the mixture of beauty and ugliness, good and evil, and the inability to distinguish between good and bad.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qīng zhuó tóng liú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ching1 juk6 tung4 lau4
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