漱流

to rinse one's mouth with water / to gargle

to rinse one's mouth with river water / (fig.) to live a hermit's life

to rinse one's mouth with water / to gargle

variant of 漱[shu4]

to flow / to disseminate / to circulate or spread / to move or drift / to degenerate / to banish or send into exile / stream of water or sth resembling one / class, rate or grade

see 枕石漱流[zhen3 shi2 shu4 liu2]

to live a hermit's life (in seclusion) / a frugal life (idiom)