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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 「犯顏直諫」, with details below.

This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「犯顏直諫」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Dare to offend the authority of elders or the emperor and try your best to persuade them.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fàn yán zhí jiàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

faan6/faan2 ngaan4 jik6 gaan3

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