| 浑水摸鱼 |
hún shuǐ mō yú |
to fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain |
| 浑 |
hún |
muddy; turbid / brainless; foolish / (bound form) simple; natural / (bound form) whole; entire; all over |
| 水 |
Shuǐ |
surname Shui |
| 水 |
shuǐ |
water / (after a name) ... River / to swim (used mostly in 会水 and 水性) / (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy / (bound form) additional cost; extra income / classifier for washings of a garment |
| 摸 |
mō |
to feel with the hand / to touch / to stroke / to grope / to steal / to abstract |
| 摸 |
mó |
variant of 摹 |
| 摸鱼 |
mō yú |
to catch fish / (fig.) to loaf on the job; to be slack; to take it easy |
| 鱼 |
Yú |
surname Yu |
| 鱼 |
yú |
fish (CL:条,尾) / used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鲍鱼, alligators and crocodiles 鳄鱼 and octopi 章鱼) |