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Let’s dive into the idiom 「飛蛾赴燭」. Its definition and application are outlined 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 zhú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fei1 ngo4 fu6 juk1
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