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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「秀才造反」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Intellectuals are dissatisfied with reality and resist and fight.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xiù cái zào fǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sau3 choi4 jou6 faan2

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