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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「保泰持盈」 for your learning.

Discover the idiom 「保泰持盈」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Refers to maintaining a stable and prosperous situation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bǎo tài chí yíng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bou2 taai3 chi4 ying4

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