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Our free Chinese learning series introduces idioms and proverbs. These timeless phrases hold valuable meanings and are worth studying. Today’s idiom is 「不能自已」, detailed below.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「不能自已」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Already: stopped. Refers to the inability to control oneself and calm down excited emotions.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bù néng zì yǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bat1 nang4 ji6 yi5

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