4 characters Idiom and proverb 18 985

Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「規行矩止」. Explanation below.

This feature highlights the idiom 「規行矩止」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Rule and square: compass and square, extended to mean standard. It means to do things strictly according to the rules and not be sloppy. It also means doing things in a rigid and inflexible manner.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

guī háng jǔ zhǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

kwai1 haang4/hong4/hang4 geui2 ji2

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