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

Here’s the idiom 「人自為戰」, with its definition and practical application described below.

To fight: to fight. Everyone can fight independently.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

rén zì wéi zhàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yan4 ji6 wai6/wai4 jin3

Chinese idioms, with their vast variety, hold different meanings and uses. Their abundance makes studying them rewarding, and these materials are here to help you along the way.