4 characters Idiom and proverb 18 748

From the basics of characters to complex idioms, Chinese learning can be challenging. This free guide highlights the idiom 「視下如傷」. Details below.

Discover the idiom 「視下如傷」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Take care of the people as if they were injured. In the old days, it was used to describe the concern of those in power for the people. Same as “treating the people as if they were one’s own flesh and blood.”

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shì xià rú shāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

si6 ha6 yu4 seung1

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