4 characters Idiom and proverb 26 902

Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「瞞心昧己」.

Here’s the idiom 「瞞心昧己」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Mi: to deceive. Do bad things against your conscience.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mán xīn mèi jǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

mun4 sam1 mui6 gei2

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