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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「光可鑒人」 and its explanation.

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「光可鑒人」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Guang: bright; Jian: illuminate. The flashing light can illuminate people’s shadows. Describes black hair, moist and bright skin, or smooth and bright objects.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

guāng kě jiàn rén

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gwong1 ho2 gaam3 yan4

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