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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「稍勝一籌」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Chips: Chips, a tool used for counting in ancient times, mostly made of bamboo. In comparison, it’s slightly better.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shāo shèng yī chóu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

saau2 sing3 yat1 chau4/chau2

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