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涌泉相报

yǒng quán xiāng bào

4-character word Traditional 涌泉相報

What 涌泉相报 means

1. to repay a kindness many times over (from the saying 滴水之恩，滴水之恩，{当涌泉相报|dī shuǐ zhī ēn , dāng yǒng quán xiāng bào})

The characters in 涌泉相报

• 涌yǒngto well up; to gush forth; to surge
• 泉quánspring (small stream); mouth of a spring; coin (archaic)
• 相xiāngeach other; one another; mutually
• 报bàoto report; to inform; to announce; to respond; to reply; to sign up for…

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