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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「河汾門下」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

River: Yellow River. Fen: Fen River. It is used to describe the large number of talented people under a famous teacher.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hé fén mén xià

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ho4 fan4 mun4 ha6

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