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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 「自生自滅」, with details below.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「自生自滅」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

It occurs naturally, grows naturally, and disappears naturally. Describes natural development without anyone’s concern.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zì shēng zì miè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji6 sang1 ji6 mit6

There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.