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Learn about the idiom 「賞罰信明」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Describes handling things strictly and fairly. Same as “clearly distinguish between rewards and punishments”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shǎng fá xìn míng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

seung2 fat6 seun3 ming4

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