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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「洞幽燭微」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
洞: insight; 幽: deep and profound; 燭: illuminate; 微: tiny, detailed. Describes a person with sharp eyes that can see into the deep and subtle details of things.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dòng yōu zhú wēi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dung6 yau1 juk1 mei4
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