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Chinese study involves characters, phrases, and idioms. This resource introduces 「避世金馬」 as part of advanced learning. Explanation below.

Today, we explore the idiom 「避世金馬」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

It is used to describe a court official who avoids worldly affairs.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bì shì jīn mǎ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bei6 sai3 gam1 ma5

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