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Discover the idiom 「端本正源」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Duan: correct, clean. Ben: the root. Source: root. Refers to rectifying and cleaning up from the root.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

duān běn zhèng yuán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dyun1 bun2 jeng3/jing3 yun4

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