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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「善善惡惡」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Praise good things and hate bad things. It describes a person who can distinguish between good and evil, and clearly differentiate between what he loves and hates.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shàn shàn è è

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sin6 sin6 ok3 ok3

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