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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「人情世態」.

Here, we present the idiom 「人情世態」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

The human condition. It usually refers to the friendship between people.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

rén qíng shì tài

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yan4 ching4 sai3 taai3

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