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Today, we explore the idiom 「以德服人」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Use good virtues to make the people submit and obey the rulers.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǐ dé fú rén

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi5 dak1 fuk6 yan4

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