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The idiom 「繩愆糾謬」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.

Sheng: to correct; 愆: fault; 錯: error. Refers to correcting mistakes.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shéng qiān jiū miù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sing2 hin1 gau2/dau2 mau6

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