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Let’s learn about the idiom 「君臣佐使」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

Originally it referred to four types of people: monarch, ministers, assistants, and envoys, each of whom played a different role. Later it referred to the different effects of each medicine in a traditional Chinese medicine prescription.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jūn chén zuǒ shǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gwan1 san4 jo3 sai2/si2

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