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Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「負險不臣」 below.

Discover the idiom 「負險不臣」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

It means being stubborn and refusing to submit.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fù xiǎn bù chén

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fu6 him2 bat1 san4

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