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This introduction highlights the idiom 「新發於硎」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
New: just sharpened; whetstone: whetstone. The knife has just been sharpened on the whetstone. Describes something that is very sharp or just beginning to show its edge.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xīn fā yú xíng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
san1 faat3 yu1 ying4
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