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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 「明知故犯」, with details below.

The idiom 「明知故犯」 we’re featuring is explained below, showcasing its meaning and usage.

Knowing clearly that it should not be done, but deliberately violating it.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

míng zhī gù fàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ming4 ji1 gu2/gu3 faan6/faan2

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