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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「博學多聞」.

Here, we present the idiom 「博學多聞」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

Erudite: extensive. He has extensive knowledge and rich experience.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bó xué duō wén

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bok3 hok6 do1 man4

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