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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「名列前茅」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Metaphorically, ranking first.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
míng liè qián máo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ming4 lit6 chin4 maau4
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