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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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