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江河日下

jiāng hé rì xià

4-character word

What 江河日下 means

1. rivers pour away by the day (idiom); going from bad to worse
2. deteriorating day by day

The characters in 江河日下

• 江jiāngriver
• 河hériver; (bound form) the Yellow River; (bound form) the Milky Way
• 日rì(bound form) sun; day; day of the month
• 下xiàdown; downwards; below

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