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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「德輶如毛」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Virtue is as light as a feather. It means that practicing benevolence is not difficult, but it depends on whether one has the ambition.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dé yóu rú máo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dak1 yau4 yu4 mou1/mou4

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