Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「出公忘私」, with details below.
This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「出公忘私」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Forget personal feelings for the sake of public interest.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chū gōng wàng sī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
cheut1 gung1 mong4 si1
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