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 「西鄰責言」, with details below.
Let’s learn about the idiom 「西鄰責言」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
Western neighbor: the neighboring country to the west; accusation: words of accusation. It originally referred to the Qin State (in the west) punishing the Jin State (in the east). Later it generally refers to other people’s blame.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xī lín zé yán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sai1 leun4 jaak3 yin4
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