Mastering Chinese involves learning single characters, creating words, and finally, idioms. This free idiom resource introduces 「束杖理民」, with its explanation below.
The featured idiom 「束杖理民」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
It means governing the people without abusing punishment. Describes an official who is kind and loving to his people. Put away the canes and the torture instruments.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shù zhàng lǐ mín
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chuk1 jeung6/jeung2 lei5 man4
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