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This feature highlights the idiom 「外寬內明」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

It means being magnanimous on the outside but clear-sighted on the inside.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wài kuān nèi míng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ngoi6 fun1 noi6 ming4

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