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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「君子固窮」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
Gentleman: a person with good upbringing and moral integrity; content with poverty: to be content with poverty. It means a gentleman can be content with poverty and enjoy his way of life without losing his moral integrity.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jūn zǐ gù qióng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gwan1 ji2 gu3 kung4
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