- 一薰一莸 yīxūnyīyóu good mixed with evilliterally meaning a fragrant herb and a foul-smelling plant mixed together; it describes how good is easily overwhelmed or obscured by evil
- 薰莸 xūnyóu good and evilfragrant and foul-smelling grasses; used as a metaphor for good and bad people, or the distinction between virtue and vice
- 薰莸不同器 xūnyóubùtóngqì good and bad people do not mixLiterally "fragrant herbs and foul herbs are not stored in the same vessel"; an idiom meaning that good and bad people cannot coexist or should be kept apart.
- 薰莸同器 xūnyóutóngqì good and evil coexistgood coexists with evil; used as a metaphor for the blurring of distinctions between the good and the bad
- 薰莸异器 xūnyóuyìqì good and bad cannot coexistLiterally "fragrant herbs and stinking weeds must be kept in different containers," meaning that good people and bad people cannot live together or be treated as the same.
Sources
- Frequency data
- MTSU Chinese text computing