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積惡餘殃

简积恶余殃 · 繁積惡餘殃

Mandarin · pinyin jī è yú yāng

Accumulated evil will be repaid in suffering (idiom).

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殃: yāng · misfortune, disaster, calamity
积: jī · accumulate, store up, amass
恶: è · evil, wicked, bad, foul
余: yú · I, my, me; surname; surplus

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1–4–2–1 · ji1 e4 yu2 yang1

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zik1 ok3 jyu4 joeng1

Cantonese word readings for 積惡餘殃. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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