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Chinese begins with basics like characters, builds up to words, and reaches idioms. This free resource introduces advanced idioms like 「偃革尚文」, with details below.

Here, we present the idiom 「偃革尚文」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

Stop military preparations and focus on culture and education.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǎn gé shàng wén

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yin2 gaak3 seung6 man4

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