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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「返本朝元」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

It means returning to the origin.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fǎn běn cháo yuán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

faan1 bun2 jiu1 yun4

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