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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「避穽入坑」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

穽, same as “坑”. A metaphor for avoiding one harm and suffering another. Same as “avoid the pit and fall into the well”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bì jǐng rù kēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bei6 jing6 yap6 haang1

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