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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「高才大德」.

Here’s the idiom 「高才大德」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Talented: having outstanding talents. Great virtue: having extremely noble character. He has both good talents and good character.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gāo cái dà dé

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gou1 choi4 daai6 dak1

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