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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「知人下士」 and its explanation.

This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「知人下士」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Know: identify. Lower class: humble yourself and respect others. Able to identify talents and treat them with respect.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhī rén xià shì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji1 yan4 ha6 si6/si2

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