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Here’s the idiom 「半生半熟」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Not fully ripe or cooked to an edible degree. Figuratively unfamiliar; unskilled.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bàn shēng bàn shú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bun3 saang1/sang1 bun3 suk6

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