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Free resources for learning Chinese are here for you! This series features idioms and proverbs with rich meanings. Check out 「拯溺扶危」 and its details.

The idiom 「拯溺扶危」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.

save. Drown: someone who falls into water. Wei: danger. Rescue those who fall into the water and support people or countries in distress. Also written as “rescue the distressed and help the drowning” and “rescue the distressed and help the needy.”

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhěng nì fú wēi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ching2 nik1 fu4 ngai4

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