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We’re happy to bring you free Chinese lessons. This series dives into idioms and proverbs, meaningful and practical. Today’s phrase is 「販夫走卒」, with its usage explained below.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「販夫走卒」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

It used to refer to peddlers and runners. Generally refers to people of low status in the old society.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fàn fū zǒu zú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

faan3/faan2 fu1 jau2 jeut1

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