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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「進賢退奸」. Explanation below.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「進賢退奸」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

It means promoting the virtuous and dismissing the wicked. Promote the virtuous and capable, and dismiss the treacherous and cunning.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jìn xián tuì jiān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jeun3 yin4 teui3 gaan1

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