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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「文以載道」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Zai: to load, extended to mean to clarify; Dao: truth, generally refers to thought. It means that the purpose of the article is to illustrate the truth.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wén yǐ zǎi dào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

man4 yi5 joi3 dou6

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