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Learn about the idiom 「舉十知九」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Of the ten things listed, nine were known. A metaphor for extensive knowledge.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jǔ shí zhī jiǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

geui2 sap6 ji1 gau2

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