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The featured idiom 「秉文兼武」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

It means being both civil and martial.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bǐng wén jiān wǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bing2 man4 gim1 mou5

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