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The idiom 「朋黨比周」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.

Forming cliques for personal gain and excluding dissidents.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

péng dǎng bǐ zhōu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pang4 dong2 bei2 jau1

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