4 characters Idiom and proverb 7 497

Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「安身之地」, with details below.

We’re presenting the idiom 「安身之地」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

A place to hide. To reside or live in a certain place, or to use a certain place as the foundation for building a career.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

ān shēn zhī dì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

on1 san1 ji1 dei6/dei2

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