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常在河边走，哪有不湿鞋

cháng zài hé biān zǒu , nǎ yǒu bù shī xié

11-character word Traditional 常在河邊走，哪有不濕鞋

What 常在河边走，哪有不湿鞋 means

1. a person who regularly walks by the river cannot avoid getting their shoes wet (proverb)
2. (fig.) it comes with the territory (e.g. a person with the power to grant favors will inevitably succumb to temptation and take a bribe)

The characters in 常在河边走，哪有不湿鞋

• 常chángalways; ever; often
• 在zàito exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at…
• 河hériver; (bound form) the Yellow River; (bound form) the Milky Way
• 边biānside; edge; margin
• 走zǒuto walk; to go; to run
• 哪nǎhow; which
• 有yǒuto have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 湿shīmoist; wet
• 鞋xiéshoe