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不打自招

bù dǎ zì zhāo

4-character word

What 不打自招 means

1. to confess without being pressed
2. to make a confession without duress

The characters in 不打自招

• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 自zì(bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
• 招zhāoto recruit; to provoke; to beckon

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