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Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「進可替否」 below.

Here, we present the idiom 「進可替否」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

It refers to offering good advice to the monarch in order to abolish bad policies.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jìn kě tì fǒu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jeun3 ho2 tai3 fau2

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