Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「亢心憍氣」, with more below.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「亢心憍氣」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Refers to a proud temperament.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
kàng xīn jiāo qì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
kong3 sam1 giu1 hei3
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