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Understanding Chinese starts with simple characters, grows to phrases, and finally idioms. Learn 「生而知之」 today for free with this guide.

Introducing the Chinese idiom 「生而知之」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Born with knowledge and principles. This is the view of idealists.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shēng ér zhī zhī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

saang1/sang1 yi4 ji1 ji1

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