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Learn about the idiom 「九流十家」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

A general term for various schools of thought from the pre-Qin period to the early Han Dynasty.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiǔ liú shí jiā

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gau2 lau4 sap6 ga1

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