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Here is the Chinese idiom 「知雄守雌」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Male: strong; female: submissive, not stubborn. Abandon hardness and keep softness. A metaphor for not competing with others.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhī xióng shǒu cí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji1 hung4 sau2 chi1

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