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Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「請先入甕」, explained here.

Learn about the idiom 「請先入甕」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

It means please go to trial and plead guilty first.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qǐng xiān rù wèng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cheng2 sin1 yap6 ung3

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