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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「蹈故習常」, with more below.

Discover the idiom 「蹈故習常」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Refers to doing things according to the old rules and old methods. Same as “following common practice”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dǎo gù xí cháng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dou6 gu2/gu3 jaap6 seung4

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