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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「改邪歸正」 here, with meaning and examples.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「改邪歸正」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Evil: improper, dishonest; return: return to. Return from the evil path to the right path and stop doing bad things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gǎi xié guī zhèng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

goi2 che4 gwai1 jeng3/jing3

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