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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「量力而行」, with details below.

This feature highlights the idiom 「量力而行」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Do it according to your ability and don’t force yourself.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

liàng lì ér háng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

leung4/leung6 lik6 yi4 haang4/hong4/hang4

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