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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「反求諸己」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
Qiu: to pursue, to seek; Zhu: a compound word of “of”. In turn, hold yourself accountable. It means to look for the reasons from one’s own side.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fǎn qiú zhū jǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
faan2 kau4 jyu1 gei2
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