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Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「必恭必敬」, explained here.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「必恭必敬」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Respectful and courteous: dignified and polite. Describes a very respectful attitude.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bì gōng bì jìng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bit1 gung1 bit1 ging3

Chinese idioms are incredibly numerous, each carrying a special meaning and usage. This variety is a great reason to study them, and we hope these tools make that easier for you.