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近墨者黑

jìn mò zhě hēi

Definition

  1. proximity to pitch makes you black (idiom, from Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修); different environments provide different influence.
  2. Nurture determines a person's character.

Character Decomposition

近
=
辶
+
斤
墨
=
黑
+
土
者
=
耂
+
日
黑
=
？
+
灬

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