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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「引水入牆」 for your learning.

Discover the idiom 「引水入牆」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

A metaphor for bringing disaster upon oneself.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǐn shuǐ rù qiáng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yan5 seui2 yap6 cheung4

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