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The idiom 「焚書坑儒」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.
Fen: to burn; pit: to bury people alive; Confucian: refers to scholars. Burning books and killing scholars.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fén shū kēng rú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fan4 syu1 haang1 yu4
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