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Here’s the idiom 「敬賢下士」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Respect the wise and humble yourself to make friends with the scholars. In the old days, feudal emperors or officials valued talents.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jìng xián xià shì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ging3 yin4 ha6 si6/si2

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