Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「遁世隱居」, with more below.
Here, we present the idiom 「遁世隱居」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
It means to avoid the world and live in seclusion without serving as an official.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dùn shì yǐn jū
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
deun6 sai3 yan2 geui1
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