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The idiom 「更仆難數」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.
The original meaning is that there are many Confucian deeds, and it is impossible to talk about them all at once. It would take a long time to talk about them one by one, and even if someone changed people in the middle, it might not be possible to finish talking about them all. It is used to describe a large number of people or things that cannot be counted.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gèng pú nán shù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gang3/gaang1 puk1 naan4 sou2/sou3
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