See 渾水摸魚 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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},
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},
{
"tags": [
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"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄏㄨㄣˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄇㄛ ㄩˊ"
},
{
"tags": [
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"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "wan⁶ seoi² mo² jyu⁴"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "wan⁶ seoi² mo² jyu⁴⁻²"
},
{
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"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "húnshuǐmōyú"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄏㄨㄣˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄇㄛ ㄩˊ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "húnshuěimoyú"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh_pron": "hun²-shui³-mo¹-yü²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "hwún-shwěi-mwō-yú"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
],
"zh_pron": "hwenshoeimhoyu"
},
{
"roman": "xunʹšujmojuj",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Palladius"
],
"zh_pron": "хуньшуймоюй"
},
{
"ipa": "/xu̯ən³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu̯ɔ⁵⁵ y³⁵/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"homophone": "混水摸魚",
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],
"tags": [
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"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese"
]
},
{
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{
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"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "wan⁶ seoi² mo² jyu⁴"
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"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "wahn séui mó yùh"
},
{
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"Hong Kong"
],
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"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Yale"
],
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},
{
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"Hong Kong"
],
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"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "wan⁶ soey² mo² jy⁴"
},
{
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"Hong Kong"
],
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"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "wan⁶ soey² mo² jy⁴⁻²"
},
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"Hong Kong"
],
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"Guangzhou",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh_pron": "wen⁶ sêu² mo² yu⁴"
},
{
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"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh_pron": "wen⁶ sêu² mo² yu⁴⁻²"
},
{
"ipa": "/wɐn²² sɵy̯³⁵ mɔː³⁵ jyː²¹/",
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/wɐn²² sɵy̯³⁵ mɔː³⁵ jyː²¹⁻³⁵/",
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Sinological-IPA"
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"word": "渾水摸魚"
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"tags": [
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]
},
{
"form": "混水摸魚",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Traditional-Chinese"
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},
{
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"Simplified-Chinese"
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"Cantonese idioms",
"Cantonese lemmas",
"Chinese chengyu",
"Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
"Chinese idioms",
"Chinese lemmas",
"Chinese terms spelled with 摸",
"Chinese terms spelled with 水",
"Chinese terms spelled with 渾",
"Chinese terms spelled with 魚",
"Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Mandarin chengyu",
"Mandarin idioms",
"Mandarin lemmas",
"Mandarin terms with homophones",
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],
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"crisis"
],
[
"personal",
"personal"
],
[
"gain",
"gain"
],
[
"fish in troubled waters",
"fish in troubled waters"
]
],
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]
}
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{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "húnshuǐmōyú"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄏㄨㄣˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄇㄛ ㄩˊ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "wan⁶ seoi² mo² jyu⁴"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "wan⁶ seoi² mo² jyu⁴⁻²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "húnshuǐmōyú"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄏㄨㄣˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄇㄛ ㄩˊ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "húnshuěimoyú"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh_pron": "hun²-shui³-mo¹-yü²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "hwún-shwěi-mwō-yú"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
],
"zh_pron": "hwenshoeimhoyu"
},
{
"roman": "xunʹšujmojuj",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Palladius"
],
"zh_pron": "хуньшуймоюй"
},
{
"ipa": "/xu̯ən³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu̯ɔ⁵⁵ y³⁵/",
"tags": [
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"Standard-Chinese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"homophone": "混水摸魚",
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"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese"
]
},
{
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"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese"
]
},
{
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"Mandarin",
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"Hong Kong"
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"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "wan⁶ seoi² mo² jyu⁴"
},
{
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"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "wan⁶ seoi² mo² jyu⁴⁻²"
},
{
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"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "wahn séui mó yùh"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "wahn séui mó yú"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "wan⁶ soey² mo² jy⁴"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "wan⁶ soey² mo² jy⁴⁻²"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh_pron": "wen⁶ sêu² mo² yu⁴"
},
{
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"Hong Kong"
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"Guangzhou",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh_pron": "wen⁶ sêu² mo² yu⁴⁻²"
},
{
"ipa": "/wɐn²² sɵy̯³⁵ mɔː³⁵ jyː²¹/",
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],
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"Guangzhou",
"Sinological-IPA"
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},
{
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],
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