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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「為德不卒」 and how it’s used.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「為德不卒」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Pawn: finished, ended. It means not doing a good thing to the end.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wéi dé bù zú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wai6/wai4 dak1 bat1 jeut1

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