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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「革舊從新」 and how it’s used.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「革舊從新」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

It used to refer to changes in political affairs or a change of dynasty. Now it generally refers to removing the old and establishing the new. Same as “reform and innovation”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gé jiù cóng xīn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gaak3 gau6 chung4 san1

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