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Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「意氣用事」, explained here.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「意氣用事」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Yiqi: subjective and extreme emotions; Yongshi: action. Lack of rationality, acting based on momentary thoughts and emotions.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yì qì yòng shì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi3 hei3 yung6 si6

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.