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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「塞井焚舍」 for your learning.

Today, we explore the idiom 「塞井焚舍」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Filling the well and burning the house showed the determination to fight to the death.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sāi jǐng fén shě

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sak1 jeng2 fan4 se3

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