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This introduction highlights the idiom 「白面書生」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Refers to scholars who lack experience. It also refers to a scholar with a fair face.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bái miàn shū shēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

baak6 min6/min2 syu1 sang1

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