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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「以身殉國」 for your learning.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「以身殉國」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

To sacrifice one’s life for one’s country.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǐ shēn xùn guó

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi5 san1 seun1 gwok3

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