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The Chinese journey moves from characters to idioms. This free tool explores 「修短隨化」, detailing its meaning and use.

Discover the idiom 「修短隨化」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Xiu: to grow; Hua: to create, in the old days it referred to the ruler of nature, in superstition it refers to luck and destiny. The length of a person’s life is determined by fate.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xiū duǎn suí huà

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sau1 dyun2 cheui4 fa3

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