created sense approved 薰莸不同器/薰蕕不同器 · xūnyóubùtóngqì · good and bad people do not mix — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
薰莸不同器 / 薰蕕不同器
xūnyóubùtóngqì
good and bad people do not mix
Literally "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 (literal) → 薰 · xūn · fragrant herb 莸 (literal) → 莸/蕕 · yóu · foul-smelling weed 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 同 (literal) → 同 · tóng · same 器 (literal) → 器 · qì · utensil
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition