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Understanding Chinese starts with simple characters, grows to phrases, and finally idioms. Learn 「天人共鑒」 today for free with this guide.

Learn about the idiom 「天人共鑒」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Jian: to examine. God and everyone can judge. It means being honest and trustworthy.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tiān rén gòng jiàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tin1 yan4 gung6 gaam3

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