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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「寡見鮮聞」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Describes a person who has little learning, limited exposure and poor knowledge.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

guǎ jiàn xiān wén

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gwa2 gin3 sin1 man4

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