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

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「節用裕民」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Save money and enable people to live a prosperous life.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiē yòng yù mín

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jit3 yung6 yu6 man4

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