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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「枯本竭源」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Ku: to cause to wither and die; Ben: root; Jie: to exhaust; Yuan: source. Refers to damaging the foundation of things.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
kū běn jié yuán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fu1 bun2 kit3 yun4
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