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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「詬如不聞」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Insult: scold. Being insulted, one pretends not to hear it and remains calm, which describes one’s magnanimity and self-cultivation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gòu rú bù wén

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

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