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血浓于水

xuè nóng yú shuǐ

4-character word Traditional 血濃於水

What 血浓于水 means

1. blood is thicker than water
2. fig. family ties are closer than social relations

The characters in 血浓于水

• 血xuèblood; colloquial pr. xiě
• 浓nóngconcentrated; dense; strong (smell etc)
• 于yúto go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particle
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水

Example sentences

• 血浓于水。
  Xuènóngyúshuǐ.
  Blood is thicker than water.