Chinese idioms like 「悲天憫人」 represent a high level of language skill. This free guide helps you learn their meaning and use.
Here, we present the idiom 「悲天憫人」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
Lament the world: lament the times; pity people: pity everyone. It means lamenting the difficulties of the times and pitying people’s suffering.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bēi tiān mǐn rén
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bei1 tin1 man5 yan4
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