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This introduction highlights the idiom 「折矩周規」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Still following the rules. Refers to behaving in accordance with the law.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shé jǔ zhōu guī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jit3 geui2 jau1 kwai1

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