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Mastering Chinese involves learning single characters, creating words, and finally, idioms. This free idiom resource introduces 「百折不撓」, with its explanation below.

This feature highlights the idiom 「百折不撓」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Zhe: setback; Nao: bend. It is a metaphor for having a strong will and not wavering or retreating no matter how many setbacks one encounters.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bǎi shé bù náo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

baak3 jit3 bat1 naau4

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