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Chinese idioms like 「以直報怨」 represent a high level of language skill. This free guide helps you learn their meaning and use.

Learn about the idiom 「以直報怨」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Straight: fair and upright. Treat those you hate fairly.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǐ zhí bào yuàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi5 jik6 bou3 yun3

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