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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「迷而知返」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Know how to come back after getting lost. A metaphor for being able to correct mistakes.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mí ér zhī fǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

mai4 yi4 ji1 faan1

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