Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「以忍為閽」, explained here.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「以忍為閽」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Use patience as your door. It means not to get angry easily and say hurtful words to others, so as to avoid disaster.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐ rěn wéi hūn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi5 yan2 wai4 fan1
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