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Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「去食存信」, explained here.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「去食存信」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

It is a metaphor that one would rather lose food and starve to death than not stick to one’s faith and integrity.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qù shí cún xìn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

heui3 sik6 chyun4 seun3

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.