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From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「自取其咎」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「自取其咎」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

To bring disaster upon oneself or to bring upon oneself.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zì qǔ qí jiù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji6 cheui2 kei4 gau3

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