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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「逆耳良言」 and how it’s used.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「逆耳良言」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Although it may sound harsh, it is actually good and beneficial. Ni: resist, disobey.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

nì ěr liáng yán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yik6 yi5 leung4 yin4

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