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 「用舍行藏」, with details below.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「用舍行藏」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
If you are appointed, come out and work; if you are not appointed, retire. This was the attitude of doctors in the early days.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yòng shě háng cáng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yung6 se3 haang4/hong4/hang4 chong4
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