出淤泥而不染 Save Sign in to save words chūyūníérbùrǎn ㄔㄨ ㄩ ㄋㄧˊ ㄦˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄢˇ lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom) fig. to be principled and incorruptible Character by character 出(chū)go out 淤(yū)silt 泥(ní)mud 而(ér)and 不(bù)no 染(rǎn)dye A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0