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Here’s a free resource for learning Chinese. This series focuses on idioms and proverbs, useful for various expressions. Today’s topic is 「懲忿窒欲」, as shown below.

Here, we present the idiom 「懲忿窒欲」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

Punishment: punishment; anger: anger; restraint: restrain; desire: desire. Control your anger and curb your desires.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chéng fèn zhì yù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ching4 fan5 jat6 yuk6

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