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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「以己度人」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Degree: to guess, to speculate. Use your own thoughts (mostly bad) to guess about others.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǐ jǐ dù rén

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi5 gei2 dou6/dok6/dou2 yan4

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