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Chinese study involves characters, phrases, and idioms. This resource introduces 「不避水火」 as part of advanced learning. Explanation below.

Learn about the idiom 「不避水火」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

It means not fearing danger.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bù bì shuǐ huǒ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bat1 bei6 seui2 fo2

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