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From the basics of characters to complex idioms, Chinese learning can be challenging. This free guide highlights the idiom 「隳節敗名」. Details below.

Learn about the idiom 「隳節敗名」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

隳: destroy. Integrity: integrity. It means to destroy and corrupt one’s own integrity and reputation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

huī jiē bài míng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fai1 jit3 baai6 ming4/meng2

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