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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「旁徵博引」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.
旁: extensive; 徵: seek; 博: broad; 引: cite. It refers to quoting materials as basis or examples when speaking or writing.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
páng zhēng bó yǐn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
pong4 jing1 bok3 yan5
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