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Introducing the idiom 「鉤元摘秘」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

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The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gōu yuán zhāi mì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ngau1 yun4 jaak6 bei3

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