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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 「仗義執言」, with details below.

The featured idiom 「仗義執言」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Speak the truth. Speak the truth for the sake of justice. It means being able to uphold justice.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhàng yì zhí yán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jeung3 yi6 jap1 yin4

With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.