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The featured idiom 「賞善罰惡」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

It means rewarding good people and good deeds, and punishing bad people and bad deeds.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shǎng shàn fá è

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

seung2 sin6 fat6 ok3

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