Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「飛蛾赴焰」 and how it’s used.
This feature highlights the idiom 「飛蛾赴焰」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
A metaphor for seeking death and bringing about one’s own destruction. Same as “a moth flying into the flame”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fēi é fù yàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fei1 ngo4 fu6 yim6
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