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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「懲前毖後」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Punish: warn; be cautious: be careful. It means to criticize past mistakes, learn lessons from them, and be more cautious in the future so as not to make the same mistakes again.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chéng qián bì hòu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ching4 chin4 bei3 hau6
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