Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「作小服低」 here, with meaning and examples.
This feature highlights the idiom 「作小服低」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Refers to being a concubine or submitting to someone who is inferior to oneself. Describes humility and gentleness.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zuò xiǎo fú dī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jok3 siu2 fuk6 dai1
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