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Learn about the idiom 「除惡務本」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

To eradicate evil forces, we must eliminate their roots.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chú è wù běn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cheui4 ok3 mou6 bun2

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