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Learn about the idiom 「自甘暴棄」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

It means to indulge in depravity and not seek progress. Same as “giving up on oneself”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zì gān bào qì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji6 gam1 bou6 hei3

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