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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「知人善任」. Explanation below.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「知人善任」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Zhi: to understand, to know; Ren: to employ, to use. Be good at recognizing people’s character and talents and using them in the most reasonable way.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhī rén shàn rèn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji1 yan4 sin6 yam6

There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.