Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「拾金不昧」. Explanation below.
Let’s learn about the idiom 「拾金不昧」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
Jin: originally refers to money, now refers to all kinds of valuables; Mei: hide. If you find something, don’t hide it and claim it as your own. Refers to good servant ethics and social customs.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shí jīn bù mèi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sap6 gam1 bat1 mui6
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