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This introduction highlights the idiom 「天高聽卑」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Low: low. Originally it meant that the gods in heaven can see through the most humble parts of the human world. In the old days, emperors were praised for understanding the people’s sentiments.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tiān gāo tīng bēi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tin1 gou1 teng1 bei1
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