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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「棄短就長」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

It means abandoning weaknesses and adopting strengths.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qì duǎn jiù zhǎng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hei3 dyun2 jau6 cheung4/jeung2

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