出淤泥而不染
Traditional form:
出淤泥而不染
Pinyin (reading):
chūyūní'érbùrǎn
Definitions:
- lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom)
- fig. to be principled and incorruptible
Characters:
- 出 - to go out, to send out; stand; produce
- 淤 - mud, sediment; to clog up, to silt up
- 泥 - mud, earth, clay; plaster, paste
- 而 - and, and then, and yet; but
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 染 - dye; to catch; to infect; to be contagious
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