故步自封
Traditional form:
故步自封
Pinyin (reading):
gùbùzìfēng
Definitions:
- stuck in the old ways (idiom); refusing to acknowledge new ideas
- stagnating and conservative
Characters:
- 故 - reason, cause; happening, instance
- 步 - walk, stroll, pace, march; to make progress
- 自 - self; private, personal; from
- 封 - envelope, letter; to confer, to grant; feudal
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