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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「分文不取」 and its explanation.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「分文不取」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Not a penny. A metaphor for not caring about compensation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fèn wén bù qǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fan1 man4 bat1 cheui2

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