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Learn about the idiom 「擇善而從」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

From: follow, extended to mean learn. It means choosing good things to study and doing good things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zé shàn ér cóng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jaak6 sin6 yi4 chung4

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