Elevate your Chinese by learning idioms. The featured one this time is: 「重氣輕生」.

Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「重氣輕生」 for your learning.

Here, we present the idiom 「重氣輕生」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

It means to value righteous deeds and despise life.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhòng qì qīng shēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jung6 hei3 hing1 sang1

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