Chinese study involves characters, phrases, and idioms. This resource introduces 「嗟來之食」 as part of advanced learning. Explanation below.
Learn about the idiom 「嗟來之食」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Refers to an insulting charity.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiē lái zhī shí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
je1 loi4 ji1 sik6
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