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 「未可厚非」, with details below.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「未可厚非」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
Hou Fei: excessive blame and rebuke. Don’t blame too much. It means that although there are shortcomings in one’s words and deeds, there are still some merits and should be forgiven.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wèi kě hòu fēi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
mei6 ho2 hau5 fei1
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