以讹传讹 in English yi3 e2 chuan2 e2 Meaning

Meanings

  • to spread falsehoods
  • to increasingly distort the truth
  • to pile errors on top of errors (idiomatic expression)

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Pinyin

yi3 e2 chuan2 e2

Literal

Literal explanation, with pronunciation and meaning of each character.

yi3old variant of 以[yi3] e2error chuan2to pass on e2error