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To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「保境息民」 explained, free of charge.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「保境息民」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Defend the country’s borders and ensure the people’s peace.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bǎo jìng xī mín

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bou2 ging2 sik1 man4

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