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Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「以學愈愚」 below.

Learn about the idiom 「以學愈愚」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

It means to use learning to change one’s ignorant nature.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǐ xué yù yú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi5 hok6 yut6 yu4

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