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This introduction highlights the idiom 「洞燭其奸」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Hole: thorough; candle: to illuminate; treacherous: treacherous. Can see other people’s plots and schemes very clearly.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dòng zhú qí jiān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dung6 juk1 kei4 gaan1
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