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Our focus this time is on the idiom 「格格不納」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

It means difficult to accept.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gé gé bù nà

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gaak3 gaak3 bat1 naap6

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