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This feature highlights the idiom 「光前啟後」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
It is like the light that comes before and benefits the future. Used to describe a person’s great achievements.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
guāng qián qǐ hòu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gwong1 chin4 kai2 hau6
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