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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
流水不腐
flowing water does not rot
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
flowing water does not rot
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 流水不腐 actually appears in real sentences.
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ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 流水不腐
What does 流水不腐 mean in Chinese?
流水不腐 (liúshuǐbùfǔ) means flowing water does not rot.
How do you pronounce 流水不腐?
流水不腐 is pronounced liúshuǐbùfǔ.
Is 流水不腐 an HSK word?
流水不腐 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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