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Learn advanced Chinese idioms like 「明刑不戮」, following the path from basic characters to phrases, all with this free resource.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「明刑不戮」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

It means that if the punishment is strict, people will rarely break the law and be killed.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

míng xíng bù lù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ming4 ying4 bat1 luk6

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