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 「己溺己饑」, with details below.
This feature highlights the idiom 「己溺己饑」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
They believe that the suffering of the people is caused by themselves, and therefore it is their unshirkable responsibility to relieve their suffering.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jǐ nì jǐ qí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gei2 nik1 gei2 gei1
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