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The featured idiom 「章句小儒」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Refers to Confucian scholars who are unable to understand the great principles and are obsessed with analyzing chapters and sentences.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhāng jù xiǎo rú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jeung1 geui3 siu2 yu4
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