4 characters Idiom and proverb 29 392

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Here’s the idiom 「韜跡隱智」, with its definition and practical application described below.

It means to hide one’s tracks and not reveal one’s talents.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tāo jì yǐn zhì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tou1 jik1 yan2 ji3

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