4 characters Idiom and proverb 8 905

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 「含垢棄瑕」, with details below.

This feature highlights the idiom 「含垢棄瑕」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Tolerate dirt and don’t blame mistakes. Describes magnanimity.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hán gòu qì xiá

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ham4 gau3 hei3 ha4

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