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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「執迷不醒」.

The idiom 「執迷不醒」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.

Still stubborn and unwilling to change.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhí mí bù xǐng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jap1 mai4 bat1 sing2

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