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萝卜快了不洗泥

luó bo kuài le bù xǐ ní

7-character word Traditional 蘿蔔快了不洗泥

What 萝卜快了不洗泥 means

1. when radishes are selling fast, one doesn't take the time to wash the soil off them (idiom)
2. fig. when business is booming, merchants tend to offer goods of inferior quality

The characters in 萝卜快了不洗泥

• 萝luóradish
• 卜bǔ(bound form) to divine
• 快kuàirapid; quick; speed
• 了le(completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)…
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 洗xǐto wash; to bathe; to develop (photographs); to shuffle (cards etc)
• 泥nímud; clay; paste