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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「愛國如家」 and its explanation.

This feature highlights the idiom 「愛國如家」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

It means that the emperor loves his country and his people as much as he loves his own family.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

ài guó rú jiā

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

oi3 gwok3 yu4 ga1

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