跳进黄河洗不清

lit. even jumping into the Yellow River can't get you clean / fig. to become inexorably mixed up / mired in controversy / in deep trouble

to jump / to hop / to skip over / to bounce / to palpitate

to plunge into / to jump into

to go forward / to advance / to go in / to enter / to put in / to submit / to take in / to admit / (math.) base of a number system / classifier for sections in a building or residential compound

yellow / pornographic / to fall through

Yellow River or Huang He

river / CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]

to wash / to bathe / to develop (photo)

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

unclear

Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of imperial China (1644-1911) / surname Qing

clear / distinct / quiet / just and honest / pure / to settle or clear up / to clean up or purge

(of water etc) clear; clean / quiet; still / pure; uncorrupted / clear; distinct / to clear; to settle (accounts)