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Open the tool →溯水行舟 (sù shuǐ xíng zhōu) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to sail or row a boat upstream”.
溯水行舟 is pronounced sù shuǐ xíng zhōu in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 溯水行舟 means “Rowing a boat upstream”. It is used to mean “to sail or row a boat upstream”.
指逆水行船。