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Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「束身自修」—details below.

Learn about the idiom 「束身自修」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

It means to restrain yourself and not get involved with bad people and bad things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shù shēn zì xiū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chuk1 san1 ji6 sau1

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