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浑水摸鱼

hún shuǐ mō yú

4-character word Traditional 渾水摸魚

What 浑水摸鱼 means

1. to fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain

The characters in 浑水摸鱼

• 浑húnmuddy; turbid; brainless; foolish; (bound form) simple; natural
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
• 摸mōto feel with the hand; to touch; to stroke
• 鱼yúfish; used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鲍鱼

Sounds the same

Read hún shuǐ mō yú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 混水摸鱼variant of 浑水摸鱼