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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「進賢進能」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

It means promoting virtuous and capable people. Recommend the virtuous and employ capable people.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jìn xián jìn néng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jeun3 yin4 jeun3 nang4

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