Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「咎有應得」.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「咎有應得」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Sin and calamity are entirely deserved.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiù yǒu yīng dé
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gau3 yau5 ying1 dak1
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
