Your free Chinese learning resource is here! This idiom and proverb series introduces phrases rich in meaning. Today, we explain 「沾沾自好」 and its usage.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「沾沾自好」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
It means to be complacent.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhān zhān zì hǎo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jim1 jim1 ji6 hou2
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