Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「三省吾身」, with details below.
This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「三省吾身」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Province: check, reflect; body: oneself. Originally it meant to examine oneself in three aspects every day, and later it meant to examine oneself consciously many times.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
sān shěng wú shēn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
saam1 saang2 ng4 san1
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