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Learn about the idiom 「芟繁就簡」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

芟: remove; 就: tend to. Remove the clutter and make it simple.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shān fán jiù jiǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

saam1 faan4 jau6 gaan2

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