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

This feature highlights the idiom 「自相殘害」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Can: harm. Their own people killed each other.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zì xiàng cán hài

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji6 seung2 chaan4 hoi6

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