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Here’s a free resource for learning Chinese. This series focuses on idioms and proverbs, useful for various expressions. Today’s topic is 「拔十失五」, as shown below.

Here’s the idiom 「拔十失五」, with its definition and practical application described below.

It means selecting talented people and losing half of them.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bá shí shī wǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bat6 sap6 sat1 ng5

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