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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「卑躬屈節」, with details below.

Let’s learn about the idiom 「卑躬屈節」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

To bow: to lower one’s head and bend; to humiliate one’s moral principles. Describes a person who has no spine and flatters in a servile manner.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bēi gōng qū jiē

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bei1 gung1 wat1 jit3

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