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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「九流賓客」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
From the pre-Qin period to the early Han Dynasty, there were nine academic schools: Legalism, Nominalism, Mohism, Confucianism, Taoism, Yin-Yang, Diplomacy, Miscellaneous, and Agriculture. Refers to talents and various characters of all qualities.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiǔ liú bīn kè
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gau2 lau4 ban1 haak3
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