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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「潛移默轉」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

To transfer or change naturally without leaving any trace. Same as “subliminal influence”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qián yí mò zhuǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chim4 yi4 mak6 jyun3

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