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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「杜門自絕」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Dumen: close the door and don’t go out; Jue: cut off. Stay indoors and isolate yourself from the outside world.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dù mén zì jué
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dou6 mun4 ji6 jyut6
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