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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 「簡明扼要」, explained here.

Learn about the idiom 「簡明扼要」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

It means speaking or writing in a simple and clear manner, and being able to grasp the main points.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiǎn míng è yào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gaan2 ming4 ak1 yiu3

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