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This feature highlights the idiom 「吐哺輟洗」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Later generations regarded it as an example of respecting the virtuous and humble.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tǔ bǔ chuò xǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tou3 bou6 jyut3 sai2

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