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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「發凡起例」 for your learning.

Let’s dive into the idiom 「發凡起例」. Its definition and application are outlined below.

General introduction: to provide general rules for the whole book. It refers to explaining the main points of the book and formulating the writing style.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fā fán qǐ lì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

faat3 faan4 hei2 lai6

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