萝卜青菜酱在一起，青白难辨蘿蔔青菜醬在一起，青白難辨蘿蔔青菜醬在一起，青白難辨

Radish and green vegetables pickled in sauce together: hard to tell green from white

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Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now

Meaning: Said when it is hard to tell whether someone is innocent or guilty.
Wordplay: 青 (qīng, 'green') puns on 清 (qīng, 'clear'), so 'green and white hard to tell apart' becomes 'innocence hard to tell'.

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Simplified: 萝卜青菜酱在一起，青白难辨
Traditional (Taiwan): 蘿蔔青菜醬在一起，青白難辨
Pinyin: luóbo qīngcài jiàng zài yìqǐ, qīngbái nán biàn
Bopomofo: ㄌㄨㄛˊ ˙ㄅㄛㄑㄧㄥㄘㄞˋ ㄐㄧㄤˋ ㄗㄞˋ ㄧˋ ㄑㄧˇ，ㄑㄧㄥㄅㄞˊ ㄋㄢˊ ㄅㄧㄢˋ

Written with HSK 7-9 vocabulary, at CEFR level C1.

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