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For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「知微知彰」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Micro: tiny. Zhang: obvious. Understand both the tiny embryonic state and the significant characteristics after development. Describes understanding the whole process of development of things. Also written as “know the details and know the general” and “know the general and know the details”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhī wēi zhī zhāng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ji1 mei4 ji1 jeung1
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