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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「心口如一」.

Here’s the idiom 「心口如一」, with its definition and practical application described below.

What you think in your heart is the same as what you say with your mouth. Describes being honest and straightforward.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xīn kǒu rú yī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sam1 hau2 yu4 yat1

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