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出淤泥而不染
chū yū ní ér bù rǎn
What 出淤泥而不染 means
- lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom)
- fig. to be principled and incorruptible
The characters in 出淤泥而不染
- 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield
- 淤yūsilt; river sludge; to silt up
- 泥nímud; clay; paste
- 而érand; as well as; and so
- 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 染rǎnto dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc)
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