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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 「天生天殺」, with details below.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「天生天殺」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

It means self-generation and self-transformation, and self-generation and self-destruction.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tiān shēng tiān shā

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tin1 saang1 tin1 saat3

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