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Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「潛德隱行」, explained here.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「潛德隱行」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

Refers to virtues that are unknown to others.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qián dé yǐn háng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chim4 dak1 yan2 haang4/hong4/hang4

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