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This feature highlights the idiom 「著於竹帛」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Write: writing. Bamboo and silk: bamboo slips and silk. Writing on bamboo slips and silk. It refers to writing the achievements of things or people into a book.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhe yú zhú bó

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jeuk3/jeuk6 yu1 juk1 baak6

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