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The featured idiom 「酌盈注虛」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
It means to use surplus to adjust the shortage.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhuó yíng zhù xū
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jeuk3 ying4 jyu3 heui1
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